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Top 30 Joe Dante Quotes (2025 Update)

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “There go the goddamn brownies!”

2. “There go the goddamn brownies!”

Joe Dante Quote: “The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.”

3. “The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.”

Joe Dante Quote: “Editing is kind of a solitary job.”

4. “Editing is kind of a solitary job.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “If you’re doing a family movie, you don’t want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.”

6. “If you’re doing a family movie, you don’t want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.”

8. “I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.”

Joe Dante Quote: “Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you’ve shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.”

9. “Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you’ve shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do – but kids particularly.”

15. “I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do – but kids particularly.”

Joe Dante Quote: “You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.”

16. “You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.”

Joe Dante Quote: “When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone’s feathers people in the movie business are today.”

17. “When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone’s feathers people in the movie business are today.”

Joe Dante Quote: “Repetitiveness is one of the things that’s most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they’re presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.”

18. “Repetitiveness is one of the things that’s most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they’re presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.”

Joe Dante Quote: “My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.”

19. “My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.”

Joe Dante Quote: “I’m always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.”

20. “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 Quote: “When I was growing up in the ’60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.”

21. “When I was growing up in the ’60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “You don’t paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.”

23. “You don’t paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

24. “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 Quote: “I’ve always felt that I shouldn’t make a movie if someone else could do it better.”

25. “I’ve always felt that I shouldn’t make a movie if someone else could do it better.”

Joe Dante Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

Joe Dante Quote: “I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it’s a film of theirs or someone else’s, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.”

27. “I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it’s a film of theirs or someone else’s, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.”

Joe Dante Quote: “It’s a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It’s also a time thing: you don’t want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.”

28. “It’s a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It’s also a time thing: you don’t want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.”

Joe Dante Quote: “I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn’t be doing it.”

29. “I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn’t be doing it.”

Joe Dante Quote: “It’s very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”

30. “It’s very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”

Joe Dante Quote: “One of the things I’ve always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it’s mine.”

31. “One of the things I’ve always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it’s mine.”

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