Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

"Nick: I'm on a special diet. No toxic waste."

"Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Sr.: The coach put me on these babies. You know what happened? I put on twenty pounds of pure unadulterated blitz-the-quarterback-and-rip-his-head-off muscle, Russell!"

"Wayne: Wait a second, Nick doesn't play baseball."

"Nick: Hey, wait! I get it...French Class! [laughs]"

"They were kind of nervous. It was after Re-Animator had come out, and our kids were complaining that they couldn’t see these movies that we were making. We came up with the idea for Honey! I Shrunk the Kids, and took it to Disney. They liked it, and we developed it for them. We got Ed Naha, who wrote Dolls, which we had done together, to write the script. I was going to direct, and did all the planning and worked out the special effects, and two weeks before it started shooting I got sick and couldn’t do it. They got Joe Johnston to direct the film, and I was pretty pleased with the results…It’s funny. When people talk about [Honey! I Shrunk The Kids] they say, “It’s so different.” Really, it’s not that different than Re-Animator. It’s about a mad scientist and an experiment that goes wrong, and so forth…the potential for severing some heads was there, when you have a giant ant coming at you with those big mandibles. Who knows what could happen?"

"Stuart and Brian had young children back then and came up with this idea about shrunken kids. They pitched it to Disney and the studio was interested. So, they approached me about working with them and we came up with the story. When I was a kid on the East Coast, there was a comic strip in the Sunday edition of The New York Daily News called the Teenie-Weenies. It was one huge frame showing little people riding around on mice or sitting in thimbles and I just loved that. There was also a little guy or girl that you could cut out of the newspaper and paste on cardboard to play with. So, in a way, I was prepared for this sort of thing ever since I could hold a newspaper in my chubby little hands."

"Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski"

"Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski"

"Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski"

"Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski"

"Matt Frewer as Russ Thompson, Sr."

"Kristine Sutherland as Mae Thompson"

"Thomas Wilson Brown as Russ Thompson, Jr."

"Jared Rushton as Ron Thompson"

"Frank Welker as Special Vocal Effects (voice)"