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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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