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Film Quotes by Jason Blum

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A quote about low‑budget movies claims that tighter budgets create creative freedom and sharper ideas. Other lines compare making sequels to low‑budget work, noting that constraints can spark imagination. A final thought warns that spending too much money often makes a film worse, not better.

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Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it…

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Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I…

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I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be…

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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…

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In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether…

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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…

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There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the…

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

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When you raise the budget, you make creative compromises. The higher the budget goes, the more cuts in your movie happen. When…

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Currently there's no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with…

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

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I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning…

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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…

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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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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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But, it's much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we…

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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…

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

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

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Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low…

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

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

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There are movies that we have done that haven't come out very well. That doesn't feel very good. But 'Jem' is in…

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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…

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

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

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The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the…

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Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a…

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I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that,…

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'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,…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

I started out producing theatre in New York.