Re-working Quotes

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

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

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

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

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

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

Satish Kaushik has a knack of coming up with very good remakes.

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 take references from the past and flip them.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.