Dean Devlin Quotations

I'm a kid in a candy story, ... And I'm living out a major fantasy.

I think every year the standard gets raised and you have to top it,

We became a little obsessed with what we could do with these new toys, ... We didn't give the attention that we should to the characters. . . . The thing that was wrong with 'Godzilla' was the script I wrote, and it was a powerful lesson for me.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

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.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

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.

I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!

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

Your reach must exceed your grasp, otherwise what is heaven for?

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.

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.