Roland Emmerich Quotes

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.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

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.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

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.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

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.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

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.