Joe Dante Quotes

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I want to create content for TV and films.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

I prefer doing feature films.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

I would love to produce a film.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Part of making TV is the process - you just have to churn it out.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.