Jason Blum Quotes

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each of them. Like that, every film is an experience that entertains you. Some films will touch your heart. Some will touch you emotionally. There is nothing more than that.

If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.