Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.