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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.