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12 quotes by John Badham

John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English-born American film director, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), Stakeout (1987), Bird on a Wire (1990) and others.
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Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on... →

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Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

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The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people... →

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In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and... →

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I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny... →

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Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're... →

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In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the... →

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There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about... →

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I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit... →

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One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you... →

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Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots... →

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When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie.... →

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