Joe Dante Quotes

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 third Gremlins movie.

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 TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

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.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

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 executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

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 just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

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 the big screen, which is great.

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

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

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 mine.

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

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 my interests lay elsewhere.

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

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

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

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

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.

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 are, but they're all in general usage.

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

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

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

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 little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

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