"There go the goddamn brownies!"
"Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge."
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Source: 24 hours of horror with Joe Dante. Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.
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