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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point! "

" We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too. "

" We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?' "

" 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. "

" The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware. "

" There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan. "

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" As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one. "

" We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude. "

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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. "

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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. "

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

" Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner. "

" I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking. "