Joe Dante Quotes

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.

It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.

A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.

I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

I have to tell you this - as a teenager, I never used to see any horror films till I started acting in films.

Most horror films are made very cynically, and they're usually made by studios for an audience that they know is there, no matter what they put out. And there are always exceptions - every year, it seems we have a great one coming out.

I love the horror genre. I consider myself a genre filmmaker. I love genre, but I think there's a certain amount of complacency that comes with watching a genre film; people know what the devices are. They know what the tropes are. They know the conventions.

If you have a year where a few good horror films come out, all of the sudden, horror is back and everyone's talking about how it's a vintage year for horror.

I'd love to make a horror movie, that's definitely where I want to be one day.

I think in the late '80s and early '90s horror was dead.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.

I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don't care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That's my dream... 'Jacobinte Swargarajyam' was that film for me.

Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.