Film Quotes by Jason Blum

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

— Jason Blum

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

— Jason Blum

Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.

— Jason Blum

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

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

— Jason Blum

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

— Jason Blum

I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

— Jason Blum

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

— 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

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

It's easy to get a theatrical release that shows in one theater for a week. But there's no advertising, and no one…

— Jason Blum

People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having…

— Jason Blum

The way we structure our backend, we key the payments to the box office - so that cuts the negotiating way down,…

— Jason Blum

I think movies are overdeveloped in Hollywood. There's a big benefit to not overdeveloping and not being so precious about what you're…

— Jason Blum

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— Jason Blum

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

— Jason Blum

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

— Jason Blum

The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for…

— 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

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

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

— Jason Blum

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

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

— Jason Blum

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

— 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

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

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

— Jason Blum

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

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

— Jason Blum

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As…

— Jason Blum

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really…

— Jason Blum

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