Dean Devlin Quotes

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Every one of us at Pixar is worried that we're going to be the one to make the dud.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

Every time I make a new record, some of my existing fans are going to like it, and some are not. It's inevitable, and it's part of the deal. It's part of the job description.

I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.

It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

The reward is in the risk.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.