Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
I hope to make the most expensive movie in history at some point!
I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together. Our television has become so targeted, it's so specific that there's literally nothing else on television that grandparents are watching with their grandkids, and they're both entertained.
We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this. ' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.