Quotes About Remakes

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

The main advantage Sridevi and I had was that we acted in films which were South remakes. What we had done in the South, we did the same in Hindi.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

Most of Hindi films I made are remakes of my own films.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

their love of existence—chosen in the knowledge that nothing will be given, that one must make one's own desire and every shape of its fulfillment—through the steps of shaping metal, rails and motors—they had moved by the power of the thought that one remakes the earth for one's enjoyment, that man's spirit gives meaning to insentient matter by molding it to serve one's chosen goal.

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

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

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.

I never thought that 'Shutter' would have as many remakes when I conceived the film all those years ago. It is nice to see a film that I made talking so many different languages.

There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. They remade 'Frankenstein' 26 times between 1930 and 1970, so it's not a new phenomenon.

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

Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.

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

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

I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

I am not against remakes. They help in selling a film or creating a buzz around it. But it's my personal choice to stick to original music.

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

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.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.