Len Wiseman Quotes

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.

Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.

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.

When you're remaking a classic, you don't want it to lose steam.

Time will change and with it music will too. Our speed has changed, clothes have changed, food habits have changed, so why should music remain the same?

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.

To be worn out is to be renewed.