Quotes About Remakes

#1. 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

#2. Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

Abhishek Bachchan

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

Alex Winter

#4. Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

Nicolas Cage

#5. 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

#6. I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.

Stellan Skarsgard

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

Tishuan Scott

#8. 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.

Pamela Anderson

#9. I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

Kurt Russell

#10. Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Mithun Chakraborty

#11. I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?

Rob Zombie

#12. I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it.

Sonakshi Sinha

#13. Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

Carey Mulligan

#14. I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

Nina Dobrev

#15. 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.

Baltasar Kormakur

#16. It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Jose Saramago

#17. 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

#18. 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.

Drew Daywalt

#19. A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

Girl Talk

#20. Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

Ben Barnes

#21. 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

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

Leif Garrett

#23. In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.

Fede Alvarez

#24. Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

Kool Keith

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

Paul Di Filippo

#26. (Self Portrait: Boy Remakes World Before World Remakes Boy)

Jandy Nelson

#27. 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.

Michael De Luca

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

John Carpenter

#29. I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think.

Rob Zombie

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

Julie Gonzalo

#31. After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again ... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.

William Lucking

#32. 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

#33. I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

Sune Rose Wagner

#34. I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

Jenny Slate

#35. I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.

Ann Voskamp

#36. I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true.

Robert Englund

#37. I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

James Wan

#38. 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

#39. 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.

Fede Alvarez

#40. My brother and I are huge fans of foreign horror. Some of the most interesting movies are coming from overseas. I guess if there was one change we'd like to see, it would be more original horror films made by the studio system and less of a reliance on remakes.

Michael Rasmussen

#41. Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

Hideo Kojima

#42. I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

William Monahan

#43. 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

#44. My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

#45. Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Craig Shirley

#46. You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges.

Reid Hoffman

#47. It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

Ed Koch

#48. Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Rick Riordan

#49. Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

Lloyd Kaufman

#50. 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

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

Julianne Moore

#52. I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.

John Lennon

#53. My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

Michael Caine

#54. American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

#55. The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

Jacques Audiard

#56. You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.

Frank Caliendo

#57. I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

Justin Vernon

#58. Walking this road without you to remake forgotten promises

Tetsuya Nomura