Ellen Stofan Quotes

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

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.

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.

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.

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

I am strictly against remaking a movie.

I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.

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.