Steven Soderbergh Quotes

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

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.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

I did Kushi Kushiga,' the remake of Chronic Bachelor;' Kalyana Ramudu,' which is the remake of Kalyanaraman;' and also Software Ganda' in Kannada, the remake of My Boss.'

Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Satish Kaushik has a knack of coming up with very good remakes.

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'

I'm not big on remakes.

I am not against remakes. What I feel is that they may not excite me much.

When doing a remake, you're on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.

Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.