I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. — 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
