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" There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie. "

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" 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. "

" We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Everybody already knows what Godzilla is. "

" I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad. "

" 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. "

" Most young American actors feel like teenagers. "

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" We always want our leaders to be great leaders. "

" 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. "

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

" I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre. "

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

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" These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for. "

" In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers. "

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

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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. "