Rod Lurie Quotes

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

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.

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.

If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

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.

I'm just super into redefining things.

Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

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

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

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

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

This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

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

I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

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

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.

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

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

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

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.