We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets.… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
There are movies that we have done that haven't come out very well. That doesn't feel very good. But 'Jem' is in… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I think scary movies work best when they're relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we… — 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… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions:… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I wasn't a fanboy of horror. I didn't grow up on horror movies. I grew up loving all movies. I still love… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
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 think there's room for people to love 'Transformers' and love 'Insidious.' They coexist in a happy way; in other words, my… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
It's harder and harder to scare people, and filmmakers are aware of that, and they're making the movies better, and I think… — 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
