One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I… — 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 don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first… — 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… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of… — 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… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
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
