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.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

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.

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

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

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

The President of the United States has super star status. He's not a normal person, because he's protected like no other person in the world and if this man's life is in danger, the whole world is kind of in peril in a way, because the leader of the free world could fall into the hands of terrorists.