Joe Dante Kids Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.