Re-telling Quotes

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

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

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.

Anybody who's into Arthurian legends will appreciate that they are being re-told. The Arthurian legends have been developed and re-told over the years.

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.

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.

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

I have no plans of doing a series of 'Raja' films.

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

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

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

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

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.