Joe Dante Quotes
So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
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I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
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So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
