Bobby Deol Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

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

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.

Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

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

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

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

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.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

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

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 wish someone would redo 'Dune.'