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

We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

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.'

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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.

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.

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Dean Devlin

The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape.

Dean Devlin

There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.

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.

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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.

Dean Devlin

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

Dean Devlin

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

Dean Devlin

'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.

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin

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

Dean Devlin