Boney Kapoor Quotes

Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'

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.

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 don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

When you're remaking a classic, you don't want it to lose steam.

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

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.

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.

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

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.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

You can't compare David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' to the older version.

I really liked 'Premam,' and when we decided to remake it, our intention was never to make a better film.

Even my first film Poda Podi' was supposed to be remade in Telugu. That was an experimental film.

I don't think 'Enter The Dragon' should ever be remade.

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

After all my hard work, I ventured into Bollywood with 'Traffic,' which is a remake of a Malayalam movie.

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.