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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Filmmaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the best things about the RED ONE - I can use all the best lenses that have been used in film forever.
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most young American actors feel like teenagers.
- Predictable
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Stargate' was more a fantasy.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Circling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.
- Cop
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020