Roland Emmerich

I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would…

— Roland Emmerich

I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage…

— Roland Emmerich

In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had…

— Roland Emmerich

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

— Roland Emmerich

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

— Roland Emmerich

We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they…

— Roland Emmerich

Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good…

— Roland Emmerich

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can…

— Roland Emmerich

I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen 'Independence Day,' so I know how the private…

— Roland Emmerich

I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence…

— Roland Emmerich

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…

— Roland Emmerich

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

— Roland Emmerich

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

— Roland Emmerich

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

— Roland Emmerich

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

— Roland Emmerich

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

— Roland Emmerich

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

— 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

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before.…

— Roland Emmerich

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

— Roland Emmerich

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that…

— Roland Emmerich

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

— Roland Emmerich

That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still…

— Roland Emmerich

The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person…

— Roland Emmerich

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

— Roland Emmerich