Quotes from Dean Devlin

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

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.'

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

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.

Portland has all the accoutrements of a big city, but the heart and soul of it is a small town, so that creates an intimacy in a large environment.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

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

That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.

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.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

John Rogers has an encyclopedic mind. Having John as our showrunner is the gift that keeps on giving. He knows more trivial information than anyone I've ever met in my entire life.

Of all the projects I've ever done, 'Stargate' is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy. We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn't want to do anything other than the TV series.

We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

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.

We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.

Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.

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

We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

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