Remakes Quotes

• 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

  Cinema, Landscape, Adaptation

  "Pacific Rim - Charlie Hunnam interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different 'Hamlets,' and every one has given me something different.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Different, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Cynical, Hollywood

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• There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

  Rob Zombie

  Want, Tricks, Brands

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• Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, World, Advertising

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Motivation, Women, Sleep

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• 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

  Mean, Want, Film

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• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Creativity, Opposites, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

  Alex Winter

  Certain, Carpenter, Originals

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• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mother, Children

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

  Leif Garrett

  Beach, Boys, Beach Boys

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• 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

  Love, Forever, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 19, 2011

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• What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Adventure, Water, Poseidon

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• 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

  Stars, Taken, Law

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• There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.

  William Monahan

  Running, Drama, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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• It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

  Will Durant

  Change, Home, Political

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

  Julianne Moore

  Years, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Brother, Interesting, Fans

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Sick

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

  Henry Jenkins

  Frustration, Media, Balance

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.247, NYU Press

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• I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.

  Chris Rock

  Challenges, Littles, Common

  "Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Neil LaBute discuss 'Death at a Funeral'". HollywoodNews.com interview, www.hollywoodnews.com. April 12, 2010.

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