Cinema Quote by Richard D. Zanuck

I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it…

— James Wan

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter…

— John Carpenter

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar…

— Graydon Carter

I'm not always happy when Hollywood does remakes of films, but that's usually when they have a very, very, very good film, and they…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I think, quite often, filmmakers kind of think so much about what the franchise will be and sometimes can neglect to put their efforts…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

— Oscar Isaac

The good thing about the studio is that, when the movie comes out, they will put their marketing and their money behind it, which…

— Jamie Linden

Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the…

— Bernie Brillstein

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial…

— Gerard Butler

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again…

— David Ayer

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things…

— Lawrence Blume

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

— Jacques Audiard