Mahesh Babu Quotes

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.

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

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

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

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.

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

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

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.'

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.

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

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.

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

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

Praktan' saw stupendous success in Bengal, can it not be remade in Hindi? It sure can.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.