Made Quote by John Milius

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

— John Milius

I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's…

— Nia Long

I'm very concerned that we don't make movies that are original anymore.

— Robert Zemeckis

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

— Mohanlal

I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and…

— Rob Reiner

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things…

— Ben Affleck

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past.

— RaMell Ross

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

— Alejandro Amenabar

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

— Todd Phillips

There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and…

— William Friedkin

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

— Bernardo Bertolucci