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" The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together. "
Dean Devlin
Few
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Great
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" I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it. "
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" I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings. "
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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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" John Rogers has an encyclopedic mind. Having John as our showrunner is the gift that keeps on giving. He knows more trivial information than anyone I've ever met in my entire life. "
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" In movies, we've run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don't have to worry about offending anyone. "
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" The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart. "
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" We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too. "
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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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" 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. "
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" In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film. "
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" A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware. "
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" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "
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" Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets. "
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" 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. "
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" We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell. "
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" I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one. "
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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. "
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" Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen. "
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" Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy. "
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" There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms. "
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" The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact. "
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" There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific. "
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" It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.' "
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" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "
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" 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. "
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" In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change. "
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" There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie. "
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" Of all the projects I've ever done, 'Stargate' is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy. We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn't want to do anything other than the TV series. "
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