Joe Dante Quotes

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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

  Editing, Broken, Rooms

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

  Joe Dante

  People, Looks, Want

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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

  Editing, Perfect, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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

  Feels, Mines

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2007.

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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

  Kids, Scare, Done

  "Interview: Joe Dante on the horrors of 'The Hole'". www.mtv.com. September 27, 2012.

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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

  Differences, Making A Difference, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Mean, Excitement, Advantage

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

  Joe Dante

  Felt, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Believe, Judging, Atmosphere

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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

  Home, Hbo, People

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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

  Stupid, Kids, Ideas

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2010.

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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

  Hero, Atmosphere, Way

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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

  Kids, Made, Knows

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2010.

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

  Joe Dante

  Political, Sixty, Hard

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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

  Character, Reality, Mind

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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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

  Personality, Over You, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Editing is kind of a solitary job.

  Joe Dante

  Jobs, Editing, Kind

  "What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 1". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2012.

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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

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Joe Dante

  Growing Up, Forever, Growing

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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

  Interesting, Scripts, Horror

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• I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

  Joe Dante

  Thinking, Labyrinth, 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 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

  Eye, Editing, Issues

  "Joe Dante On How Converted 3-D Blockbusters Screwed Indie Horror The Hole (Plus: Whatever Happened To Omri Katz?)". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. October 1, 2012.

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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

  Cute, Writing, Kids

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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

  Mean, Kids, Actors

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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

  Sports, Father, Golf

  "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

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