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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
- Joe Dante
#Forever
#Growing Up
#Last
#Up
#Would
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
#Doing
#Entertainment
#Family
#Stupid
You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
- Joe Dante
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#Paint
#People
#Want
#Your
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
#Back
#Looking Back
#Looking
#Me
#Movies
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
#Atmosphere
#Dynamic
#Hero
#Small
#Way
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
#Ahead
#Cynicism
#Product
#Time
#Your
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
#Back
#Go
#Journey
#Try
#Young
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
#First Time
#Time
#Why
#Worth
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
#Enough
#Generation
#Home
#People
#Work
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
#Editing
#Enough
#Fast
#Look
#Way
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
#Care
#don't Care
#Know
#Mind
#Reality
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
- Joe Dante
#Act
#Cute
#Decent
#Effort
#Finding
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
#Always
#Horror
#Interesting
#Looking
Editing is kind of a solitary job.
- Joe Dante
#Editing
#Job
#Kind
#Solitary
'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
#Imagination
#Technology
#Together
#True
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
#Broken
#Editing
#Film
#Movies
#Room
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