Dean Devlin Quotes

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

I'm just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.

When you make a movie with plenty of money, there is no drama.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.