Jay Roach Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.”
-- Jay Roach

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“Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.”
-- Jay Roach

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“I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.”
-- Jay Roach

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“It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.”
-- Jay Roach

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“I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.”
-- Jay Roach

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“I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.”
-- Jay Roach

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“I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.”
-- Jay Roach

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“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.”
-- Jay Roach

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“On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.”
-- Jay Roach

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.”
-- Jay Roach

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