Film Remakes Quotes

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

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.

After 'Saw,' we got offered every horror remake under the sun, and I was just always thinking, 'I don't see how this could be interesting for me.'

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

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

I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?

Wanted' and 'Rowdy Rathore', which I directed in Hindi, were remakes of Telugu hits. Telugu films have contributed to my growth in a big way.

So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel, and a different director is going to be doing Man of Steel. That’s the reality. So all you can do is to give it not only your best, but your vision on what this character is, when you become one with that character.

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

Something I'm completely not open to is remaking movies.

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

I feel old films should not be remade.

I am not against remakes. What I feel is that they may not excite me much.

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

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.'

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

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film, and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.