Re-Imagining Quotes

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.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor. Toxie is an underground icon. My favorite kind.

In my mind, it's always easier to do a sequel than an original.

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

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

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

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

I have no plans of doing a series of 'Raja' films.

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.

'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, 'I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.'

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

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.

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.

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

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

When I was approached for the Kannada version of the film, the makers said it would be their version of 'The Dirty Picture,' based on the life of Silk Smitha. So, I asked them for the exact story. But, I was shocked after hearing the complete story. It was neither like the Bollywood version, nor about the life of Silk Smitha.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

Sequels are desperate.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.