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Differences Quote by Joe Dante

“I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.” quote by Joe Dante — Download Open image

“I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.”

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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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It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract…

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before…

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There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make…

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People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

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A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it…

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