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J. Lee Thompson

"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning."

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"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

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Donna Grant

"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."

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Donna Grant

"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

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Donna Grant

"I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production."

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Donna Grant

"I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones."

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Donna Grant

"The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue."

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Donna Grant

"Language is much closer to film than painting is."

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Donna Grant

"I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer."

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Donna Grant

"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."

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J. Lee Thompson
"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

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J. Lee Thompson
"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."

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J. Lee Thompson
"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning."

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