A biography for Dean Devlinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.”
“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.”
“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'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?'”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.”
“I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.”
“In movies, we've run out of ideas for bad guys. We end up with politically incorrect villains, like Arab terrorists or Latin drug dealers or corrupt politicians. Well, aliens are the best film villains since the Nazis. You don't have to worry about offending anyone.”
“It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands.”
“'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.”
“We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.”
“I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.”
“In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.”
“We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.”
“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.'”
“The days of family entertainment seem to have left us.”