Toby Stephens Quotes

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

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

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

I take references from the past and flip them.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.