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A love for scary movies shows up in Jason Blum’s words, even though he grew up watching all kinds of films. He says snobby criticism irritates him and pushes him to produce more horror instead of fancy sequels. He also believes that low‑budget limits give filmmakers a clear playground, while he still enjoys big‑screen spectacles from afar.

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I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.

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Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

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One of the things is that you need to space out scary movies.

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I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

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

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I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.

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I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his…

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

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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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Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.

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

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I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

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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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I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's…

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I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie…

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The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I…

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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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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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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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We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we…

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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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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:…

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I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the 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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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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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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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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I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to…

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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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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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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 scary movies work best when they're relatable, and I think one of the scariest things to young people now is…

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

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

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

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What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes…

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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 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…

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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.

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I started out producing theatre in New York.