A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video. — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it. — 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
