Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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.

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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.

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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.

Joe Dante
Joe Dante

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