Sam Wood Quotes

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

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.

There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

I take things that already exist and just push them.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

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

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

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

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

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

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

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.