64 Quotes by Joe Dante

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.