Jason Blum

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

I couldn't stand it. It was what I thought I always wanted. I was there every day in the trenches, and I…

— Jason Blum

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

— Jason Blum

When people come to me with an idea and they say, 'We can do it found footage or traditional,' I always say…

— Jason Blum

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

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script…

— Jason Blum

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

A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy…

— Jason Blum

Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.'…

— Jason Blum

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything…

— Jason Blum

I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like…

— Jason Blum

I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies…

— Jason Blum

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie,…

— Jason Blum

One of my favorite things about making horror movies is, the first time you screen them in front of an audience, it's…

— Jason Blum

Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have…

— Jason Blum

I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors…

— Jason Blum

When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical…

— Jason Blum

I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more…

— Jason Blum

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

— Jason Blum

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

The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing…

— Jason Blum

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love…

— Jason Blum

'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we…

— Jason Blum

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps…

— Jason Blum

The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like 'The Purge,' are totally different. One of the ways…

— Jason Blum

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

When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's…

— Jason Blum

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make…

— Jason Blum