'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
'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.
'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.
'Stargate' was more a fantasy.
'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
A lot of sci-fi shows are very cold, too concerned with hardware.
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.
Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own.
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!
I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.
I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'
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 don't over-manage projects like the studios do.
When you look at our Godzilla, you won't feel any nostalgia.
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.
In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.
The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.
In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.
We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.
