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Todd McFarlane

"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."

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"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."

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Akshay Vasu

"I make movies I want to see."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."

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Akshay Vasu

"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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Akshay Vasu

"All I do is go to the movies."

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Akshay Vasu

"What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation."

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Akshay Vasu

"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me."

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Todd McFarlane
"The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want."

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Todd McFarlane
"It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days."

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Todd McFarlane
"Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something."

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Todd McFarlane
"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."

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Todd McFarlane
"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo."

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Todd McFarlane
"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."

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Todd McFarlane
"You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better."

Time

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Todd McFarlane
"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities."

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Todd McFarlane
"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."

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Todd McFarlane
"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion."

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