105 Quotes by Dean Devlin

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

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

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

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

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.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'