Top 82 Remakes Quotes & Sayings

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

I've composed music for many remakes and they've all come out much better than the original.

I don't think remakes should be looked down upon.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

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 am not against remakes. They help in selling a film or creating a buzz around it. But it's my personal choice to stick to original music.

I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

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.

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

Personally, I'm not too fond of remakes.

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

Remakes are tricky and I wanted to approach 'Nerkonda Paarvai' as a fresh film. Taapsee and I are different people. Naturally, our understanding of characters won't be the same. Further, I didn't want to be influenced by her performance and I like it that way.

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.

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

Wanted' and 'Rowdy Rathore', which I directed in Hindi, were remakes of Telugu hits. Telugu films have contributed to my growth in a big way.

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

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've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it. You have to do whatever you can to shut it out, because you don't want your performance to be tainted. You don't want to fall into the trap of comparisons, basically.

I am not in favor of making remakes.

I'm not big on remakes.

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

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.

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?

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.

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.

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

Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.

Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

I'm bored with the same genre, the same remakes of things. I like original ideas and high-concept things where it's off the page and kind of fantastical.

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.

Most of Hindi films I made are remakes of my own films.

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

One of the things I thought coming into the franchise, what I thought was a unique gift: you hear so much of these reboots, remakes, re-whatevers, and the thing about them is that a lot of them are retellings.

The main advantage Sridevi and I had was that we acted in films which were South remakes. What we had done in the South, we did the same in Hindi.

I don't usually do remakes.

I don't believe in remakes.

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

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.

How many remakes are really successful? From 100, 98 are failures. That's because those films are remade without taking into consideration the sensibilities of the audience. I don't do that.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

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

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.

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

I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow