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Actors Quote by Joe Dante

“I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.” quote by Joe Dante — Download Open image

“I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.”

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

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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…

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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…

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

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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.…

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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There go the goddamn brownies!

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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