Latest Roland Emmerich Quotes from Interviews

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• I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.

  Roland Emmerich

  Couple, People, Trying

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

  Roland Emmerich

  Stories, Good Story

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

  Roland Emmerich

  Thinking, People, Wikipedia

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence and talent, but I knew that he would not stay in that profession.

  Roland Emmerich

  Lasts, Talent, Incredibles

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

  Roland Emmerich

  Ensemble, My Favorite, Said

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• When we shot "Stargate," he [ Jaye Davidson] came up to me at one point and said, "I don't like shooting movies," and I said, "Why?" "Too many people stare at me." I said, "Then you're totally in the wrong business."

  Roland Emmerich

  People, Shooting, Shots

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

  Roland Emmerich

  Action

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

  Roland Emmerich

  Different, Actors, Pleasure

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.

  Roland Emmerich

  Thinking, Comedy, Matthew

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

  Roland Emmerich

  People, Want, Problem

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good story that excites us both, and we have the story written. And we've had it for a year and a half, two years. So we've been ready.

  Roland Emmerich

  Years, Two, Independence

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

  Roland Emmerich

  People, Waiting, Want

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• There are shots that I had to walk away from because we had to get the movie in the theaters. There are some in "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," but lately I got smart. I would plan it so I had enough time [to get it right]. That just comes with experience.

  Roland Emmerich

  Smart, Independence, Enough Time

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

  Roland Emmerich

  White, House, Independence

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• 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.

  Roland Emmerich

  Water, Independence, Different

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

  Roland Emmerich

  Trying, Germany, Different

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.

  Roland Emmerich

  Jobs, Quitting, Middle

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.

  Roland Emmerich

  Real, Water, Challenges

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• ["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

  Roland Emmerich

  Ark, Stories, Matter

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

  Roland Emmerich

  Running, Destroying, Finished

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.

  Roland Emmerich

  Earthquakes, Limos, Firsts

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• 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.

  Roland Emmerich

  Thinking, Office, Boxes

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

• I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

  Roland Emmerich

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

• I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

  Roland Emmerich

  People, Annoyed, Trying

• It's very, very rare you find something really original and also because a lot of original stuff, most of the time has no chance, because it's so expensive to make something famous or put it in people's head that it's the one to see, it's like awareness has to be almost like at 80% or 90% if you make an expensive summer movie and that's very hard to do with anything an the White House naturally is in itself some sort of a trademark.

  Roland Emmerich

  Summer, White, People

  Source: collider.com