Film Versions Quotes

You can't compare David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' to the older version.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

I loved the extended version of 'Aliens' because it shows just a little bit more that you don't see and what they always show on television.

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

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

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

I am not against remakes. What I feel is that they may not excite me much.

I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

I have seen both versions of 'The Italian Job' and loved both of them.

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

I don't like DVD extras. No. Especially when they do things like put out alternative endings? I find all of that a little bizarre, because there should only be one ending. I don't like to be told, 'Oh, we could have had it this way,' for the director's cut.

Film rights were in the offing for 'The Onion Field,' eventually made into a movie in 1979; 'The New Centurions' became a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, while 'The Blue Knight' starred William Holden in a 1973 mini-series version.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.