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" Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show. "
Dean Devlin
You
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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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" The days of family entertainment seem to have left us. "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process. "
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" We don't over-manage projects like the studios do. "
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" We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets. "
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" I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.' "
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" We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude. "
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" The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television. "
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Than
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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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" In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers. "
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" 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. "
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Great
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy. "
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" 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. "
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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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