Steve Carell Quotes

Remakes are happening for a long time, and it is happening in the West, too. I don't believe anything is wrong in that.

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

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.

It's always that tricky thing with a remake, especially when it's something that's well loved. You're coming to something that has a built-in fascination, but with that comes people ready to feel disgruntled that it's being remade at all.

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

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

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.

I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.

Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

I did Kushi Kushiga,' the remake of Chronic Bachelor;' Kalyana Ramudu,' which is the remake of Kalyanaraman;' and also Software Ganda' in Kannada, the remake of My Boss.'

When doing a remake, you're on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'

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

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

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.

When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.

In my mind, I'm no longer daunted by the idea of a remake. In fact, I now look at it as a genre unto itself - so long as you make it your own.

I'm not big on remakes.

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'