Jan de Bont

Notable Quotes



One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

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The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

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Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

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We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

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Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

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

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The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

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As a director, you try to find what is creative.

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

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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.

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