Jason Blum Quotes

My site is a little unorthodox without being totally inaccessible.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker. How he does things is fantastic. It is different - weird different - and he does things that are groundbreaking. They are courageous to do and once you do them you are like, 'Wow! That really does work!'

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

Without sounding patronizing, it does seem that our family is different from other people. We risk more.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

Think off-center.

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I like things that are unique and extreme.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.

I didn't want to do something typical.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.