Joe Dante Quotes
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Editing is kind of a solitary job.
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There go the goddamn brownies!
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Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio…
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The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the…
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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
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If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults.…
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I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of…
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I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.
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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 issue…
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Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
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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.
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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 it's…
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Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
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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…
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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
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I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?
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I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
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It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.
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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
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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…
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