I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place.

I like to make popcorn movies. It's my passion. I love the genre.

Kurt Russell is the guy you know. He's not something out of a weight-lifting magazine or a cartoon character. The closest thing to him would have been Steve McQueen.

'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three, and we were prevented for years. And our hope is that we can get another chance at 'Stargate' and tell the entire story we wanted to tell.

'The Outpost' is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both 'Game of Thrones' and 'Wonder Woman.'

There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'

There's no doubt in the world that I am the biggest 'Doctor Who' fan.

The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

What I really like is to be at home, working.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

I like things to be orderly.