Obviously, I dont live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like theres definitely something to it.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
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.
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.
When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.
I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden. '
Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.
It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.