Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerichis a German film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely known for his disaster films. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 14th-highest grossing director of all time. He began his work in the film industry by directing the film The Noah's Ark Principleas part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 November 1955
CityStuttgart, Germany
CountryGermany
I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.
I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.
That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.
With Jedi, I was amazed that you could make a half a movie out of a finale.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.
Do not fear. Some things will never change.
When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack.