"If you're doing a family movie, you don't……" — Joe Dante
"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. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another."
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Joe Dante
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29 Quotes by Joe Dante
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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…
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The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really…
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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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I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that…
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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…
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Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been…
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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…
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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,…
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Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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