Roland Emmerich Quotes & Sayings

I'm only a stupid filmmaker. — Roland Emmerich

We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack. — Roland Emmerich

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. — Roland Emmerich

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

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

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. — Roland Emmerich

I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage. — Roland Emmerich

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

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

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. — Roland Emmerich

Do not fear. Some things will never change. — Roland Emmerich

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. — Roland Emmerich

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

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there. — Roland Emmerich

I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen Independence Day, so I know how the private residence looks. I didn't snap a picture, but I have a photographic memory and then I could take a guided tour in the West Wing. — Roland Emmerich

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. — Roland Emmerich

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders. — Roland Emmerich

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist. — Roland Emmerich