Happy Birthday: Joe Dante

Joe Dante

Born: November 28, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA

[on Gremlins (1984)] What I like in movies especially are movies that do things that you can’t do in real life and show you things that you can’t see by walking out in the street. And there have been a lot of great movies that show you real life as it is lived and should be lived. But my favorite kind of movies are the ones that show you things that you can’t see anywhere but in the movies. And this picture? Believe me, you’ll never see this stuff except in the movies.

TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE 1983 dir. by Joe Dante John Landis Steven Spielberg

GREMLINS 1984 dir. Joe Dante Stars: Zach Galligan Phoebe Cates THE BURBS 1989 dir. Joe Dante Stars: Tom Hanks Bruce Dern

Piranha 1978 dir. Joe Dante starring Bradford Dillman Heather Menzies

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