Quotes by Joe Dante - Page 1

There go the goddamn brownies!
Joe Dante / Film Director
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I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Genius
Labyrinth
Thinking
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Editing is kind of a solitary job.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Jobs
Editing
Kind
Solitary
Job
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I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Genius
Labyrinth
Pan
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I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?
Joe Dante / Film Director
Evil
Evil Dead
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It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Hard
Political
Sixty
Sixties
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I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Felt
Ifs
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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Looks
Paint
People
Want
Your Look People
Attic
Look People Your
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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Forever
Growing
Growing Up
Westerns
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I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Differences
Feels
Making A Difference
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Kids
Knows
Made
Noticed
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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Kids
Actors
Mean
Surprise
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Horror
Interesting
Repetitive
Scripts
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Movies
Broken
Editing
Film
Made
Rooms
Ruined
Saved
Been
Editing Room
Room
Where
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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 mine.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Feels
Mines
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Cute
Kids
Smile
Decent
Effort
Writing
Dialog
Finding
Realistically
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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 my interests lay elsewhere.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Sports
Elsewhere
Father
Golf
Jersey
New Jersey
Interests
Lay
Pro
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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 third Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Atmosphere
Hero
Plus
Small Town
Way
Dynamic
Extremely
Gremlin
Similar
Third
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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 are, but they're all in general usage.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Character
Don't Care
Mind
Reality
Reality Shows
Usage
Closed
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I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Cynicism
Ahead
Product
Subject
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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 just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Atmosphere
Believe
Judging
Time Believe First Time
Judge
Catch
Pictures
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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 the big screen, which is great.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Advantage
Big Screen
Excitement
Explosions
Mean
Geared
Screen
Take Advantage
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Editing
Giving
Guy
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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 TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Home
Hbo
Lucky
My Generation
People
Video
Work Home People
Tv
Work Home Enough
Certainly
Filmmakers
Generation
Saw
More Or Less
Originally
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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 little quicker, but the concept is all on television.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Differences
Features
Mean
Television
Concept
Less Money
Quicker
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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 executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Journey
Bugs
Goes On
Trying
Executive
Heroine
Studio
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Jobs
Fun
People
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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.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Kids
Apocalypse
Done
Looking Back
Scare
Movies Done Always
Besides
Republicans
Scares
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I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Cutting
Editing
Thinking
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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 need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.
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War
People
Zombie
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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. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Kids
Entertainment
Ideas
Stupid
Adult
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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 of editing, you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Editing
Eye
Issues
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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 of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Visuals
Adjust
Edit
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Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Imagination
Technology
Epic
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'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Brand New
Comprehensive
Epic
Milestone
New Technology
Collection
Avatar
Brand
Cliches
Tremendous
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Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Editing
May
Perfect
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Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Challenges
Disappointed
Genre
Old Stuff
People
Trying
Always People New
Difficult People New
New Way
Presented
Specifically
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What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
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Long
Niche
People
Shelf Life
Understanding
Usage
Life Movies Always
Describe
Exists
Shelf
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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 about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Home
Fun
My Generation
Remembered
Thinking
Time Home Movies
Watched
Event
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There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.
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Editors
Thinking
Vocabulary
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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. If anything, I find it less restrictive working in television.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Interesting
Problem
Thinking
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I go to a lot of independents and foreign films. I really try to keep up and see what there is to see. If you really love movies, it's the act of watching them that you really love. You can sit and watch a B-Western and have just as much fun watching that as you can a classic. That minute when the lights go down is the part where the magic happens, because you know this could be great. You're always kind of excited, like, "Here I am again in the church of movies, and Mass is starting.".
Joe Dante / Film Director
Fun
Love You
Magic
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When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast it and do all the work and can be just a month away from shooting, and all of a sudden, the whole thing goes up in smoke. But I do think the advent of a digital revolution is going to provide people with opportunities to make films that they never would have had before. I think you can do some pretty credible stuff now with very, very little money. Which I think is great for young filmmakers.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Opportunity
People
Thinking
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Movies cost so much that studios really try to impose their personality over yours. A lot of times, you can get swallowed up in that and end up making movies that are indistinguishable from anybody else's. 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. But that also comes from what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. There are certain projects I could have said yes to, and I know exactly how they would have turned out: exactly the way they turned out when someone else did them.
Joe Dante / Film Director
Over You
Personality
Trying
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