Carly Schroeder Quotes

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

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

I am strictly against remaking a movie.

I really liked 'Premam,' and when we decided to remake it, our intention was never to make a better film.

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.

Though there's the pressure of matching to 'Pink,' I did not see 'Ner Konda Paarvai' as a remake.

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

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.

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

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

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'.

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

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 was in school when 'Sholay' was released. I think recreating a film like that is a good idea.

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 have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who! I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

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.

Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently.

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.

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

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