Jason Blum quotes

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. (Jason Blum)

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

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

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The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

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I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

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

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I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.

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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.

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I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better. I think that the movies that we do are better because our budgets are lower, and it forces people to think within a box.

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We really look for a story first and scares second. I think that ultimately makes the scares more effective. Most people look for the scares first and build the story around it, but that's something that I've been lucky enough to learn while working with these great directors who have spent their lives making these kind of movies. So that's what we look for: is there great drama? And then we go from there.

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My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?' (Jason Blum)