Jason Blum Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”