Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
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.
If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.
I am not against remakes. What I feel is that they may not excite me much.
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
I don't usually do remakes.
I don't believe in remakes.
I'm not big on remakes.
The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.
I am not in favor of making remakes.
I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.
You know it's completely fine to do remakes.
Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.
I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually, when they have a very, very, very good film and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.
I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film, and they take away anything controversial from it and make flatter.