I think if we did 'Stargate' right, the fans would like it, and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should.

That's one of the best things about the RED ONE - I can use all the best lenses that have been used in film forever.

That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.

'Leverage' is meant to be based in Boston. But in one episode we're in New York, then another in Chicago, Florida, and Eastern Europe.

There are amazing behind-the-scenes technicians in Portland who didn't want to raise their families in L.A.

Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry.

Most young American actors feel like teenagers.

We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

I don't think these weather conditions are going to get better on their own.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

The days of family entertainment seem to have left us.

I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.

In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.

In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.

We're so specialized now in our entertainment. It's nice to do a show where you're really circling back to this idea of, 'Couldn't there be a show the whole family can watch together?'

I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.

There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.

I like to get emotional when I watch my entertainment.

'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

Usually when you're doing a season one, you're trying to find the show.

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

We're often accused of trying to manipulate opinion or that we're trying to elevate society. I think that the greatest thing we can do is to give you a vacation.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.