Dan Scanlon Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.
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I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.
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I'm not really a horror movie fan.
