We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.
If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
I regard remaking a film as creating something again.
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.