Quotes About Adaptation

Technology has changed almost everything. One institution remains stubbornly anchored in the past. It's where I work - the United States Congress, a 19th Century institution using 20th Century technology to respond to 21st Century problems.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

In the entertainment industry, there remains one constant: change.

He Who Remains is in the comics, but the version in our show was very different.

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

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

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

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

I'm not copying Bipasha in 'Trishna.' It is no doubt a remake of 'Jism,' but there are certain differences.

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

Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.

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

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

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

Often I would get offers to remake films and that didn't interest me. I have no interest in remaking a film in Hindi which has been made in the south already. I prefer adapting from a book than a movie.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

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

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think it's really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.

Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn't anything like my 'Dawn Of The Dead.'