Florence Pugh Quotes

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.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

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

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

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

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.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

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.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Principles that have served their day expire, and new principles are born.

As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

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

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

If we don't move with time, we'll be stuck in old ways.

Any time there is a new idea, it can take some time for policy to catch up to it.

A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.

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

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue if the race changes for a character.

We have to keep pace with changing times.