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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.

~Joe Dante

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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.

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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.

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When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

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Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

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I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'

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I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

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'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: November 28th, 1946

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