DEAN DEVLIN

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.

'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three, and we were prevented for years. And our hope is that we can get another chance at 'Stargate' and tell the entire story we wanted to tell.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

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.

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!

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

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

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.

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

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

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

Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

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

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.