Jeff Goldblum Reveals Iconic Independence Day Line Was, In Fact, A Nod To Jurassic Park

That was a Steven Spielberg-suggested line on the set. ‘Hey, Jeff, maybe this time,’ as I remember vaguely, ‘say pedantically, as is your academic way’ — there was always a cerebral element to this character, I was always trying to make it a little more, you know, cool and gizzard centered, and you know, steamy. But he said, ‘I want you to say, “Must go faster,”’ something like that. So that’s what came about then.