Movie Remake Quotes

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

If I were to remake a movie, I'd love to remake Halloween 3 Season of the Witch because even though it's a very flawed film, at its core is a brilliant idea: An evil toymaker is set to kill all the children of the world on Halloween night - and I think that's absolutely fantastic. So whoever has the rights can give me a call.

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

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

I am strictly against remaking a movie.

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

'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.

I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get.

Most of the time, I don't think movies of TV shows are a great idea. It's worked a few times, but usually, I think that what's on TV works on TV.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

I've got dreams now of reinventing 'Hellraiser' and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. 'Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people's movies. But if someone had a 'Hellraiser' script and had funding, and I loved it, let's go.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

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

'Karnan' ran for 100 days each at three theatres in Chennai alone. That is a record, since no movie runs for more than 100 days. My hope is that I don't ruin the original if it is remade.

Success of a film has got nothing to do with whether it's a remake or an original.

'Paranoia' was pretty awesome because it was the cast of 'Air Force One,' Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford back together, pitted against each other again, so that was pretty neat.

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.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.

Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn't anything like my 'Dawn Of The Dead.'

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

While producing a remake, one is sure of the success that it will have as the project has been tried and tested earlier.