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David R. Ellis

"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character."

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"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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David R. Ellis
"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

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David R. Ellis
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."

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David R. Ellis
"Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common."

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David R. Ellis
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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David R. Ellis
"Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day."

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David R. Ellis
"No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences."

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David R. Ellis
"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."

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David R. Ellis
"We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects."

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David R. Ellis
"Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do."

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David R. Ellis
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money."

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