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Jason Blum

(1969) Film Producer United States

148 quotes in 585 categories

Jason Blum says Halloween is woke, and there’s nothing he can do about it, showing his candid take on cultural trends. He believes movies work best when everyone who works gets paid, and he admits a special love for scary films even though he didn’t grow up watching horror. He also enjoys collaborating with theater actors and isn’t afraid to admit a possible ghost sighting.

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Jason Blum is a film producer from the United States, best known for Blumhouse book of nightmares.

Quick Facts About Jason Blum

Born: February 20, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Producer
Notable works: Blumhouse book of nightmares
Spouse: Q22910588

About Jason Blum

Jason Ferus Blum is an American producer and the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, known for horror franchises such as Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and Halloween.

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series

Quotes by Jason Blum

It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.

Funny

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I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

Art

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People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

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One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.

Horror

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Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

Film

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When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.

Budgets

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We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

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I started out producing theatre in New York.

Actor

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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

Carpenter

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As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

Business

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I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

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The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest…

Age

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Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

Intellectual

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I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

Funny

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My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Judgment

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Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of…

Film

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Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the…

Books

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Working with kids is always hard because you have to have very limited hours. They have to have breaks, and they have…

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Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on…

Experience

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I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets.…

Believer

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All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other…

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I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to…

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You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If…

Film

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We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and…

Film

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I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that…

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I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like…

Budgets

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We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we…

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If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it's working, the logic is…

Business

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But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget.…

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When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie -…

Movie

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In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were…

Art

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I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if…

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Halloween is woke, and there's nothing we can do about it.

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I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

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I didn't grow up loving horror.

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I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

Cinema

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I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his…

Class

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I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact…

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I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted…

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I do want to grow our company, so the way I've been doing that is moving 'scary' to different things.

Business

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Jason Blum by topic

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