Joe Dante

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we…

— Joe Dante

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

When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and…

— Joe Dante

I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.

— Joe Dante

I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature…

— Joe Dante

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

There go the goddamn brownies!

— Joe Dante

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you…

— Joe Dante

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and…

— Joe Dante

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

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…

— Joe Dante

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they…

— Joe Dante

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see…

— Joe Dante

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?

— Joe Dante

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in…

— Joe Dante

Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed…

— Joe Dante

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

— Joe Dante

When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast…

— Joe Dante

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw…

— Joe Dante

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and…

— Joe Dante

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

— Joe Dante

There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a…

— Joe Dante

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

— Joe Dante

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

— Joe Dante

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

— Joe Dante