Dean Devlin

“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.”

“There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.”

“If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.”

“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.”

“Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.”

“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 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.”

“'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.”

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

“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.'”

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

“We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.”

“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.”

“There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.”

“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 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.'”