64 Quotes by Joe Dante

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

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

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.

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 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.

When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone’s feathers people in the movie business are today.

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

What’s the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don’t know how long that’s going to last.

There’s so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it’s a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.