Joe Dante Quotes
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
-
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
-
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
-
You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
-
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
-
You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
-
I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
-
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
-
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
-
When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
-
History is more interesting than most people think.
-
All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
-
As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
-
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
-
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
-
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
-
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
-
My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.
-
I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.
-
On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.
-
I think Anarky's age is right now. He looks like a street protester. He looks like Anonymous. He's like one of these guys who wants to go out there and change the world to what he believes is the better, and I think of all the Batman enemies, and one of the reasons I'm most excited about Anarky, is he feels relevant today.
-
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
