Latest Joe Dante Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Thinking, Interesting, Problem

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Fun, Love You, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Joe Dante

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Editors

  "INTERVIEW: What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 2". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2012.

• 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

  Cutting, Thinking, Editing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

• 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

  Editing, Giving, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

• 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