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" That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer. "
Dean Devlin
Everything
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" We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union. "
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Back
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" I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it. "
Dean Devlin
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" Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.' "
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Independence
Look
Me
" Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment. "
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Small
Soul
City
" We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part. "
Dean Devlin
Philosophy
Care
Best
" If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen. "
Dean Devlin
Those
Around
Good
" Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. "
Dean Devlin
Stories
Good
Doing Good
" The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape. "
Dean Devlin
History
Camera
Good
" It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.' "
Dean Devlin
Doing
Confident
Trying
" Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry. "
Dean Devlin
Death
Flight
Shot
" We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us. "
Dean Devlin
Season
Support
Us
" We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that. "
Dean Devlin
Enough
Suffering
Storm
" We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will. "
Dean Devlin
Save
Will
Money
" I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad. "
Dean Devlin
Used
About
iPad
" The days of family entertainment seem to have left us. "
Dean Devlin
Left
Entertainment
Family
" I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special. "
Dean Devlin
Love
Big
Christmas
" These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for. "
Dean Devlin
Damn
Smart
Give
" I think if we did 'Stargate' right, the fans would like it, and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should. "
Dean Devlin
Right
Fans
Good
" I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point! "
Dean Devlin
Expensive
History
Hope
" In the '80s, all the movies became predictable. "
Dean Devlin
Predictable
Became
Movies
" We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be. "
Dean Devlin
Want
Force
You
" Everybody already knows what Godzilla is. "
Dean Devlin
Godzilla
Everybody
Knows
" I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it. "
Dean Devlin
Great
Believe
Always
" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "
Dean Devlin
Independence
Never
Day
" With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find. "
Dean Devlin
Smart
Enjoy
People
" 'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up. "
Dean Devlin
Independence
Day
Follow
" The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. "
Dean Devlin
Brain
Soul
Heart
" When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie. "
Dean Devlin
Money
Said
Go
" I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking. "
Dean Devlin
Fantasy
Think
Real Life
" Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach. "
Dean Devlin
Reach
Group
Partner