105 Quotes by Dean Devlin


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    I've wanted to do something on the Bermuda Triangle since I was in high school.

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    If you ask someone to name a real movie star, most of them would be old. We don't have enough real movie stars because there's been a devaluation of craft on all sides.

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    I'll never forget when the movie started and the spaceship that kept going and going. By the time that thing passed overhead, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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

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    In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

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    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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