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Joe Dante's Profile

Brief about Joe Dante: By info that we know Joe Dante was born at 1946-11-28. And also Joe Dante is American Director.

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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.

Tags: Life, Movies, Words

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.

Tags: Actually, Enough, Plan

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

Tags: Editing, Job, Solitary

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.

Tags: Broken, Film, Movies

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

Tags: Effort, Kids, Write

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.

Tags: Father, Good, Sports

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

Tags: Kids, Mean, Working

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

Tags: Dead, Evil, Love

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Tags: Genius, Labyrinth, Pan

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

Tags: Films, Looking, Often

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.

Tags: Kids, Movies, Why

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

Tags: Hard, Lived, Political

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

Tags: Growing, Last, Thought

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

Tags: Paint, Pictures, Put

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.

Tags: Enough, Home, Work

'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.

Tags: Greatest, Technology, True

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.

Tags: Him, Try, Young

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.

Tags: Judge, Time, Why

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.

Tags: Subject, Time

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.

Tags: Great, Mean, Movies
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