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Jason Blum stresses that movies work best when everyone who contributes gets paid, and he warns against pouring huge sums into a film that may flop. He believes tight budgets act as creative limits that spark fresh ideas, especially in horror. He also notes that audiences swing between calling horror alive or dead depending on recent releases.

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

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With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

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

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I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial…

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It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release…

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The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot…

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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 were producing 'La La Land'... and then we weren't. So it was a very painful topic, but I'm happy the movie…

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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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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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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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An effective found footage movie is much harder to make than an effective traditionally shot movie. A crappy one is much easier…

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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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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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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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I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for…

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The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that…

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into…

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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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I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made…

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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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I tell directors, 'I can't promise you a hit, but I can promise you the movie is going to be yours.' When…

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'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…

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If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that…

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

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…

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…

I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity, but one time I think I saw - I might have seen - no, I think…

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I…

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,…

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…

'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.