Condola Rashad Quotes

I'm not big on remakes.

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.

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

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

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

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.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

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.

I did 'Doubt' as a film, a play and an opera.

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

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

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.

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

There should be a sequel to 'Sarfarosh'. It was a different film.

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

The meaning of the word 'remake' has changed so much over the years that from being a channel through which the younger generation heard classic melodies, it has now become a formula, a business model.

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.

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.'

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

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.