Top 54 Emmerich Quotes
#1. Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.
Chin Han
#2. Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
Channing Tatum
#3. Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you're too small to be a full witch." (Emmerich)
Suzanna J. Linton
#4. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.
Peter Jacobson
#5. If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#6. Emmerich's heart in his throat, he could only stare down at Monica, who looked up at him with glassy eyes as she shivered with pain and choked on blood.
Suzanna J. Linton
#7. There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
Channing Tatum
#8. After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
Noah Emmerich
#9. We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the 'LOTR' income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it's such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create 'Avatar' over and over again.
Toby Emmerich
#10. 1,300 mg of evening primrose oil three times a day to help with hormone balance.
Maria Emmerich
#11. I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.
Roland Emmerich
#12. The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.
Toby Emmerich
#14. It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.
Roland Emmerich
#15. Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
Roland Emmerich
#16. I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.
Roland Emmerich
#17. That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.
Noah Emmerich
#18. I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Roland Emmerich
#19. A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
Noah Emmerich
#20. I'm not really a zombie genre guy; I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing.
Noah Emmerich
#21. I've been to New Zealand, like, 25 or 30 times.
Toby Emmerich
#22. My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.
Noah Emmerich
#23. Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! ... I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#25. 'The Conjuring' is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It's a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like 'Psycho' or 'The Others.'
Toby Emmerich
#26. 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.
Roland Emmerich
#27. In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?
Noah Emmerich
#28. A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.
Toby Emmerich
#29. The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going.
Lars Emmerich
#31. I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
Roland Emmerich
#32. When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'
Toby Emmerich
#33. There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich
#34. If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.
Toby Emmerich
#35. Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#36. I'm actually pretty scientifically interested. I have a lot of friends who are doctors, so the idea of the virus and the synapses in the brain and how the nervous system works was actually all pretty familiar to me.
Noah Emmerich
#37. I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
Noah Emmerich
#38. Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#39. It feels to me like 'Shazam' will have a tone unto itself. It's a DC comic, but it's not a Justice League character, and it's not a Marvel comic. The tone and the feeling of the movie will be different from the other range of comic book movies.
Toby Emmerich
#40. We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.
Toby Emmerich
#41. There are so many entertainment options - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu - and especially for younger people, who are Internet-savvy and video game fans.
Toby Emmerich
#42. There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.
Roland Emmerich
#43. I want to make films that people will say, 'That movie rocked!'
Toby Emmerich
#44. I don't squabble a lot, but everyone has a bad day.
Toby Emmerich
#46. I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen Independence Day, so I know how the private residence looks. I didn't snap a picture, but I have a photographic memory and then I could take a guided tour in the West Wing.
Roland Emmerich
#47. It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Roland Emmerich
#48. To be honest, prestige is probably the last thing I focus on.
Toby Emmerich
#49. I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.
Roland Emmerich
#50. The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.
Anne Catherine Emmerich
#51. I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics.
Toby Emmerich
#52. Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
Noah Emmerich
#53. I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.
Toby Emmerich
#54. It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.
Noah Emmerich
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