Top 30 Roland Emmerich Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.
Chin Han
#4. The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#6. 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
#7. In Washington, the air quality today was described as 'red.' ... You know what 'red' is? It's bad for everyone. Not just old people, sick people and babies. When it's just bad for old people, sick people and babies, that's called a Republican budget.
Bill Maher
#9. Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
Alan Hansen
#10. 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
#11. What you do for Jewish New Year is you go down to Times Square ... It's a lot quieter than the regular New Year. It's just a few Jews walking around going, "sup?"
Jon Stewart
#12. I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#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. It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
Baltasar Gracian
#18. An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
Rachel Dratch
#19. 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
#20. Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.
Theodore Sturgeon
#21. 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
#22. Repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.
Thomas Watson
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.
Marty Rubin
#29. Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.
Hillary Clinton
#30. There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich
