Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

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.

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

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

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

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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.

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

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

Reform that you may preserve.

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.

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.

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

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.

When you're remaking a classic, you don't want it to lose steam.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

The place needs a complete overhaul.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

I think it's refreshing that it's not called 'The Archie Show.' It's called 'Riverdale,' not 'Archie,' which is good.

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

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.