Joe Dante Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'”

“I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”