Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it… — 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
The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything… — 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
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
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 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
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
You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When… — 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
But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 all movies,… — 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 one of… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
