Remakes Quotes

• There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different 'Hamlets,' and every one has given me something different.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Thinking, Different, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Cinema, Landscape, Adaptation

  "Pacific Rim - Charlie Hunnam interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Falling In Love, People, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Cynical, Hollywood

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• The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes...

  Woody Allen

  Quality, Half, Toilets

  "Woody Allen on Film Funding + Thoughts on Change". BBC Interview, www.youtube.com. 2011.

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

  Viola Davis

  Stars, Thelma And Louise

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, Way, Mindset

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• 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.

  John Carpenter

  Mother, Break Through, Advertising

  Source: collider.com

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• There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?

  Rob Zombie

  Want, Tricks, Brands

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• Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, World, Advertising

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• Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

  Tobe Hooper

  Stars, Taken, Law

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

  Erma Bombeck

  Motivation, Women, Sleep

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

  Alex Winter

  Certain, Carpenter, Originals

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• I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

  Norman Jewison

  Mean, Want, Film

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• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

  Leif Garrett

  Beach, Boys, Beach Boys

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• A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Forever, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 19, 2011

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• What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Adventure, Water, Poseidon

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• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Creativity, Opposites, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.

  William Monahan

  Running, Drama, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.

  Julianne Moore

  Years, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

  Will Durant

  Change, Home, Political

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• I've remade a few movies and they all have one thing in common: great endings. If you're going to remake something, make sure that ending is tight. It's a little less challenging, if you have a great ending. If you don't have a great ending, don't remake the movie.

  Chris Rock

  Challenges, Littles, Common

  "Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Neil LaBute discuss 'Death at a Funeral'". HollywoodNews.com interview, www.hollywoodnews.com. April 12, 2010.

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