Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?
You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true.
Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world,
Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.
Hollywood likes short-hand pitches for a film. 'Speed' could be pitched as 'Die Hard on a bus,' ... Remakes are the ultimate short-hand pitch. In 20 years when someone wants to remake 'Speed' they'll just say 'It's Speed.'
Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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.
This summer should beat last summer. The lineup is better. Studios are returning to their bread and butter, which are sequels. Last summer there were a lot of remakes that didn't excite audiences.
When you look at 2005, which overflowed with remakes and sequels, I think that the Academy recognized that the best films came from independent filmmakers not the big studios.
The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?
It might take getting through the whole season to see whether remakes work or not, ... But right now they're not selling.
I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
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'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.
Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
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."
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
I would never remake something that was like 'The Godfather.' Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.
I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.
I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.
Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.
We can remake the world daily.
Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.
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.
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
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?
There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?
I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.
I'm dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever f***ing made. There ain't one of them I wouldn't remake.
Myself I must remake.