You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.
Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters. "
American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.
I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?
Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.
I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.
I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
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.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.
The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.
I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.
I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
