Joe Dante Quotes & Sayings

“I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.”

“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.”

“Editing is kind of a solitary job.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“'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.”

“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.”

“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.”