Vignesh Shivan Quotes

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

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

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

I feel old films should not be remade.

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

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.

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

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.'

With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life.

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

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

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

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

Every time I do a cover, I completely... pick apart - I take apart the entire song and really reconstruct it. I try and make it my own.