Jason Blum Quotes
Top 21 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jason Blum
Jason Blum Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.
The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.
I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.
I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.
The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
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 affair with.
A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.