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    Right from the start he ran into trouble with the notoriously robust producer Joel Silver. "Well, I was hired to do the film because Ridley Scott dropped out ... I was just being used as a glorified cameraman, but, in the end, it was a good experience. The script was lousy and I couldn't get it fixed. I asked my dad and he said: 'In life it is often more important what you say 'no' to.' So I walked away." How did Silver take that? Full Article at Irish Times
    Well, I was hired to do the film because Ridley Scott dropped out ... I was just being used as a glorified cameraman, but, in the end, it was a good experience. The script was lousy and I couldn't get it fixed. I asked my dad and he said: 'In life it is often more important what you say 'no' to.' So I walked away.
    Joel Silver – Joel Silver SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
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  1. That has changed, thankfully. There is definitely something there. You have quite a few openly gay directors, such as myself and Bryan Singer.
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  2. That surprised me somewhat ... I mean, they didn't write that stuff about Jurassic Park a few years earlier. But it was a watershed moment in movies. The real success of the movie was that we showed the impossible. It was important that way. From then on other movies also tried to show the impossible to...
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  3. I think so. Elements of 2012 ask questions about what's worth saving in such a situation. Those are very serious dilemmas, I think.
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  4. Yes. He actually said those words.
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  5. I think so. I remember meeting David on his boat once and I was proud to tell him that he had opened doors for us. He was just about the first openly gay executive and he really inspired me. But for actors they still feel that, if they come out, they will only be allowed to play token gay characters.
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  6. Yes, homophobia is still a problem for actors certainly ... You can't come out because it might ruin your career. If they came out they really still can be limited to playing homosexuals. Still nobody wants to make a romantic comedy with actors who are openly gay.
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  7. He shouted at me for about two hours. 'What do you mean no? You can't just no!' It was horrible. He said the most outrageous things. Eventually, he threw me out and said: 'You will never work in Hollywood again.'
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  8. When we made that film we immediately thought: what's the best way to represent that disaster? ... There was no question. We had to show the Statue of Liberty covered in ice. That was the only thing that would work.
    Roland Emmerich – Roland Emmerich SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago
  9. Yeah. Everyone was saying: 'Well, you are going to blow up the Capitol Building.' And they were appalled when we said: 'No. We have to blow up the White House.' This is a story about the king under threat from invaders and that's where the king resides. It was like showing the Statue of Liberty in 2012 ...
    SOURCE: Irish Times 1 month ago

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