Quotes by Jason Blum

Jason Blum

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.

Annoyed

Looks

People

But one of the rules I don’t like to break is we still do – 95% of our movies are low budget. We’re offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don’t do them. That’s not to say there aren’t exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we’re retreading.

Quality

Thinking

Trying

But, it’s much easier to do that than produce the movies from scratch. It excites the same thing in me, whether we build it from the ground up, or whether we come on when the movie is done or almost done. The idea of supporting the underdog and getting a smaller movie out there in a big way is equally exciting.

Ideas

Scratches

Underdog

Currently there’s no other way to get a movie into 3,000 theaters except with a studio. We have a first-look deal with Universal, and it’s been fun to work with them. But studios are a part of our life. I think they’ll always be, but they’ll play a different role. The consumer and the creator are getting closer together.

Fun

Play

Thinking

Directors typically have three choices – you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don’t get paid up front and probably don’t make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

Art

Choices

Independent

For me it’s much more like a little kid rebelling. 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. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I’ve not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.

Kids

Opposites

Two

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Laughing

People

Scared

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don’t have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won’t work.

Elements

Scare

Scary

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Art

Found

People

I love being the underdog. It’s one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don’t like them or are prejudiced against them. So it’s one of the many reasons I like horror and it’s also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.

Love Is

People

Underdog

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Anything Goes

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Casting

Choices

Class

College

Complicated

Creating

Creative

Cutting

Easier

Elements

Falling In Love

Found

Fun

Giving

Has Beens

Helping

Horror

I Love Music

Ideas

Important

Independent

Inexpensive

Interesting

Kids

Laughing

Like You

Long

Looks

Love Is

Lows

Mean

Mind

Mistake

Months

More Money

Opposites

Paper

Passionate

People

Play

Quality

Reading

Scare

Scared

Scary

Scratches

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Quotes by Jason Blum

Jason Blum

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.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don’t have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won’t work.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love being the underdog. It’s one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don’t like them or are prejudiced against them. So it’s one of the many reasons I like horror and it’s also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.

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