I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

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

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.

That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

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