American - Director | November 28, 1946 -
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
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I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'
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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.
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I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
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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.
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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.
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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
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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.
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