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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

Some films shouldn't be remade.

— Ram Charan

You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

— Alice Englert

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

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

— Liev Schreiber

Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to…

— Abhishek Bachchan

You know it's completely fine to do remakes.

— Jeetendra

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

— Robert Zemeckis

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

— Julie Gonzalo

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 don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

— Jonathan Demme

I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original…

— Michael Beck