They really wanted Independence Day, so we had to make the speech really good.
It’s what Fox wanted, and it was a title that was typical of the time [for a] disaster movie.
We shot that at night, of course, because it’s dark and not on a soundstage or anything.
So he popped in the VHS, he showed me the cut of the speech, and I went ‘Holy Mother, they have got to name this movie Independence Day’.
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