Re-Creation Quotes

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

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.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

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.

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

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.

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

Being on stage is not creating, it's re-creating.

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

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

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

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

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

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

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

What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

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

There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.