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Jan de Bont

"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."

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"I make movies I want to see."

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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."

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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

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"All I do is go to the movies."

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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"There's an electrical thing about movies."

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"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"

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"Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised."

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Jan de Bont
"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."

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"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."

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"I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters."

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"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."

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"The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real."

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Jan de Bont
"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."

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Jan de Bont
"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."

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Jan de Bont
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

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"I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work."

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"Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop."

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