Colin Trevorrow Quotes

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.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

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.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

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.

I'm not big on remakes.

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

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

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

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.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

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.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

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

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

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.'

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 take things that already exist and just push them.

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

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

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