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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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" Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place. "

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" 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. "

" I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers. "

" We don't over-manage projects like the studios do. "

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" The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.' "

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" I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special. "

" 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. "

" Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker. "

" Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. "

" There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific. "

" In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change. "

" I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own. "

" If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen. "

" 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. "

" 'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.' "

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" The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television. "

" Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy. "

" In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film. "

" When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia. "

" There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A. "

" Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets. "

" When I first came to Oregon, the annual amount spent on production was $1 million to $1.5 million. By the time 'Leverage' was done, there had been over $100 million in production that year. "