Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerichis a German film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely known for his disaster films. His films, most of which are English-language Hollywood productions, have made more than $3 billion worldwide, including just over $1 billion in the United States, making him the country's 14th-highest grossing director of all time. He began his work in the film industry by directing the film The Noah's Ark Principleas part of his university thesis and also co-founded Centropolis Entertainment in 1985 with his...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 November 1955
CityStuttgart, Germany
CountryGermany
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.
If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.
It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.
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.
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.
Do not fear. Some things will never change.
I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'
There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
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.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
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.
I'm only a stupid filmmaker.