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.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.
Do not fear. Some things will never change.
Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good story that excites us both, and we have the story written. And we've had it for a year and a half, two years. So we've been ready.