Top 55 Dean Devlin Quotes

That transcends everything – skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.

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.

The days of family entertainment seem to have left us.

‘The Book of Love’ is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

I’m a huge Trekkie.

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.

We’re often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we’re trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

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.

‘The Outpost’ is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Wonder Woman.’

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

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.

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

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.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it’s become incredibly audience-specific.

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

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.

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

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there’s no one to knock off pedestals.

I just make the movies I want to see. I’ve always been that way.

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

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we’d be looking at a spectacular car today.

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.

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

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.

I know I screwed up my ‘Godzilla.’

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.

Usually when you’re doing a season one, you’re trying to find the show.

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

‘Librarians’ is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it’s not expected.

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.

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

I love what they do with ‘Doctor Who,’ where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.

The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

I like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.

I don’t think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

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.

‘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.

With ‘The Librarians,’ we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

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.

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

I’ve always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

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.

I would love it if the whole ‘Godzilla’ franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

I haven’t had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It’s always been a pleasure.

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.

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In the ’80s, all the movies became predictable.

When you look at our Godzilla, you won’t feel any nostalgia.