Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed up in that and end up making movies that are indistinguishable from anybody else's. One of the things… — Joe Dante Copy Share
You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature films and television. I think there's been a lot more receptivity on television to interesting adult stories that in the '60s and '70s would have been made into feature films. I have no problem jumping back and forth.… — Joe Dante Copy Share
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
