Antoine Fuqua Quotes

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.

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.

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

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.

Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

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.

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

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.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

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

When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

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.

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.

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

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.

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.

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

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

Isn't nearly every Hindi film a rehash of some movie or the other?