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Joel Hodgson

"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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Donna Grant

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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Donna Grant

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

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Donna Grant

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Donna Grant

"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Joel Hodgson
"South Park started as a little video Christmas card."

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Joel Hodgson
"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

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Joel Hodgson
"Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies."

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Joel Hodgson
"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."

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Joel Hodgson
"If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000."

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Joel Hodgson
"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."

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Joel Hodgson
"A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater."

Science

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Joel Hodgson
"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's."

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Joel Hodgson
"Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song."

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Joel Hodgson
"But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually."

Beginning

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