64 Quotes by Joe Dante

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

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

It’s a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It’s also a time thing: you don’t want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.

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.

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

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 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.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

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