Dean Devlin Quotes

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

You only get one shot at a second chance.

A lot of people don't get second chances.

I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

I never made a good movie.

Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

I'd love to retouch my whole life.

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

We've all made mistakes.

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

There's always instances where you want those throws back, but the worst part about it is that I can't redo it.

If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.

I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

It's one thing to get beaten by a side who are a lot better than you, it's quite another to know you've thrown victory away in a game you should have won.