Dean Devlin
Dean Devlin
Dean Devlinis an American screenwriter, producer, television director and former actor. He is the founder of the production company Electric Entertainment...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth27 August 1962
CityNew York City, NY
forget kept knew passed rest retirement spaceship time
I'll never forget when the movie started and the spaceship that kept going and going. By the time that thing passed overhead, I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
gets raised standard top year
I think every year the standard gets raised and you have to top it,
exceed heaven otherwise reach
Your reach must exceed your grasp, otherwise what is heaven for?
high since triangle
I've wanted to do something on the Bermuda Triangle since I was in high school.
expensive
I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!
years pirate want
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.
people pedestal
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
independence firsts film
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
successful giving television
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.