Quotes & Sayings About Remakes

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films ... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes. — Woody Allen

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

My brother and I are huge fans of foreign horror. Some of the most interesting movies are coming from overseas. I guess if there was one change we'd like to see, it would be more original horror films made by the studio system and less of a reliance on remakes. — Michael Rasmussen

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette. — Leif Garrett

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition. — William Monahan

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all. — Philip James Bailey

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it. — Sonakshi Sinha

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons. — Gerard Butler

There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon. — Drew Daywalt

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters." — Lloyd Kaufman

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks. — Nicolas Cage

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes. — Hideo Kojima

Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original. — Carey Mulligan

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations. — Charlie Hunnam

I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus. — Ann Voskamp

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time. — Ben Barnes

Their love of existence - chosen in the knowledge that nothing will be given, that one must make one's own desire and every shape of its fulfillment - through the steps of shaping metal, rails and motors - they had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen goal. — Ayn Rand

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original. — Alex Winter

Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards. — Abhishek Bachchan

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world. — Ed Koch

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes. — Kool Keith

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing. — Viola Davis

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again ... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it. — William Lucking

Re-imagined or reinterpreted source material offers unique perspectives into the creative process. I like hearing a band cover another band's tune. I dig seeing multiple interpretations of a Shakespearean play. I'm inspired by reading a creative team's successful take on the origin of Superman.

Sometimes the remakes can surprise us, sometimes they're tired, and sometimes they fail, but they are almost always enlightening. I root for the success of a remake. A remake can breathe new life into something forgotten. I want to see something bad turned into something good or something good turned into something phenomenal. — Mike Walton

I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people. — Miles Millar

I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake. — John Lennon

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them. — Kurt Russell

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like. — Justin Vernon

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges. — Reid Hoffman

Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises — Tetsuya Nomura

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical. — Nina Dobrev

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake? — Norman Jewison

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake. — Sune Rose Wagner

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. — Joan Didion

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood. — Michael De Luca

You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself. — Frank Caliendo

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. — Rick Riordan

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow. — Tobe Hooper

A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going. — Girl Talk

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter. — Stellan Skarsgard

Flame is not the only fire." Her tone turned almost stern. "You have brought your folk another spark far greater than any flame. You have opened their eyes to the world, Aljan, shown them lands and peoples formerly beyond their ken. You have whistled them out of their cramped, closed, inward-facing ring and led them into my Dance, the Great Circle and Cycle encompassing all. < ... > Nay, flame has not been the greatest of my gifts to you. Knowledge, Aljan, that even now remakes the world. Knowledge is the fire. — Meredith Ann Pierce

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. — Robert Browning

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood. — Mithun Chakraborty

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it. — James Wan

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes. — John Carpenter

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there. — John Carpenter

I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing. — Pamela Anderson

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake. — Julie Gonzalo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo

I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point? — Rob Zombie

In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea. — Fede Alvarez

Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years. — Julianne Moore

Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends. — Craig Shirley

The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble. — Sylvester Stallone

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up. — Michael Caine

I read that the body remakes itself every seven years. Every cell. Even the bones rebuild themselves like coral. Why then do we remember what should be long gone? What's the point of every scar and humiliation? What is the point of remembering the good times when they are gone? I love you. I miss you. You are dead. — Jeanette Winterson

I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true. — Robert Englund

I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think. — Rob Zombie

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices. — Jose Saramago

(Self Portrait: Boy Remakes World Before World Remakes Boy) — Jandy Nelson

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes. — Fede Alvarez

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting. — Baltasar Kormakur

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original. — Tishuan Scott

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is. — Jacques Audiard

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes. — Jenny Slate