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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"Quality is better than quantity."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."

"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."

"Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher."
Explore more quotes by Jan de Bont

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

"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."

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

"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."

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

"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."

"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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