Dean Devlin Quotes

I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more versions of it, the better.

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

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.

I've seen 'Transformers' seven times. I cry every time.

I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid.

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.

I would love to do some type of action feature. That's my goal. A really cool, Transformers-type feature would be awesome.

'Lethal Weapon' sold apropos of nothing when I was very young, but that was a very different market.

I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.

When I go to Comic-Cons and people line up for autographs, so many people have a story about how they are moved, how they get tearful about what 'Back To The Future' meant to them.

If you go back and watch the original 'V,' you're like, 'Oh, I thought this was great. It kind of looks really cheesy.'

I watched 'Who' with a mixture of affection and exasperation through the eighties, always ready to cheer on the Doctor but seldom feeling that the series was playing to its strengths. Some of the adventures, revisited on DVD, turn out to be better than I remembered - others just as infuriating.

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

I saw 'A New Hope' on my Vidamax because I came a little late to the party.

My strangest experience was my six words in 'Star Wars.' I've had more fanmail from that than anything I've ever done.

The original release of 'Star Wars' was literally the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Four years old was probably too young - I recall believing, for some time, that Darth Vader was a robot.

I was like, 'I've got to watch some more of these.' And yeah, I watched 'E.T.,' which I absolutely love. I'm not a big crier, but that just always makes me cry.

I remember watching 'Abbott and Costello vs Frankenstein' continuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy.

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'