Vijay Krishna Acharya Quotes

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'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'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

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

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.'

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

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

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

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.

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.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

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.

My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they're getting a lot of retread... a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.

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

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

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

For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.

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.'

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.