Fede Alvarez Quotes

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

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 are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

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.

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

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

I'm not big on remakes.

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.'

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

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

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

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.

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.

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

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

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

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

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

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.

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

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

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