Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.
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.
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 wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
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.
I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.
Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.
Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.
We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.
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.
They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?
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.
There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
Personally, I'm not too fond of 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.
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'
My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they're getting a lot of retread... a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.
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.
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
You know it's completely fine to do remakes.
In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.
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.
Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.
