“As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.”

“Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'”

“As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.”