Leigh Whannell Quotes

It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.

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

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

I don't think 'Enter The Dragon' should ever be remade.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'

As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

Good to hear that 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya' is being compared with 'Bhool Bhulaiyya.' It was a super hit film.

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

For 'Tevar' we chose Amit Sharma to do the Hindi version of the Telugu hit 'Okkadi' because we wanted to change the flavour and mood of the original.

Sometimes I have little movies that I've made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror movie called 'Sensored' which I'm very creepy and disgusting in, and then I have a family drama called 'The Legends of Nethiah' which has a science-fiction B-story.

Though there's the pressure of matching to 'Pink,' I did not see 'Ner Konda Paarvai' as a remake.

After all my hard work, I ventured into Bollywood with 'Traffic,' which is a remake of a Malayalam movie.

I saw 'Predators.' That was pretty good, actually.