People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that,… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie,… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity, but one time I think I saw - I might have seen - no, I think… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I wasn't a fanboy of horror. I didn't grow up on horror movies. I grew up loving all movies. I still love all movies,… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of… — Jason Blum Copy Share
'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it,… — Jason Blum Copy Share
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative… — Jason Blum Copy Share
If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is to keep… — Jason Blum Copy Share
It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one sees the… — Jason Blum Copy Share
I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business. — Jason Blum Copy Share
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. — Jason Blum Copy Share
The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums… — Jason Blum Copy Share
