Adolf Loos Quotes

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

Some people like to reform everything they can get their hands on. Others want to fold away and worship whatever is presented to them by the caprice of history.

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

My personal feeling about reboots is - I'm very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they're getting a lot of retread... a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

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.

I take things that already exist and just push them.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the direction of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.