Ser'Darius Blain Quotes

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

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

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

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.

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

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

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'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Why would you want to remake a movie that has endured for more than 25 years?

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.

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.

Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

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

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

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.

The mandate given to me was one of change.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

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.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

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