Joe Dante

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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