Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us.

Had the car companies continued to do generation two, generation three, generation four of the EV-1, we'd be looking at a spectacular car today.

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

These audiences are so damn smart, way smarter than the studios give them credit for.

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

Of all the projects I've ever done, 'Stargate' is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy. We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn't want to do anything other than the TV series.

We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

We took over with 'Leverage' three warehouses, and now four with 'The Librarians,' and turned them into proper sound stages with sound doors and all the lights. We now have control of four real, proper-sized sound stages. The problem is they're dark and empty half of the year because there aren't enough productions coming into Oregon.

When I first came to Oregon, the annual amount spent on production was $1 million to $1.5 million. By the time 'Leverage' was done, there had been over $100 million in production that year.

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

It's always hard to watch something you create be put in somebody else's hands.

I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.