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There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

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

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.