Quotes from Dean Devlin

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

Most young American actors feel like teenagers.

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place.

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

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

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

'The Outpost' is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both 'Game of Thrones' and 'Wonder Woman.'

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

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

We have to produce a high-quality show, but we have less and less time and money to do it. If you are using the tapeless approach to save money, you will.

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.

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

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

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

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