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. Jason Blum Read Quote
Paranormal Activity’ had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We’d screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don’t have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you’re done. Jason Blum Read Quote
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first ‘Insidious,’ it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat. Jason Blum Read Quote
I think it’s frightening for all of us to contemplate that there’s more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that’s always a scary notion. Jason Blum Read Quote
Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker’s own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach. Jason Blum Read Quote
Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make ‘Get Out.’ Nobody. Nobody wanted to make ‘The Purge.’ I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make ‘The Gift,’ when it was a script called ‘Weirdo.’ Jason Blum Read Quote
Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my mom. My mom was a single mom; it was just her and I. Jason Blum Read Quote
The real scares on CNN, etc. and the scares in a movie, like ‘The Purge,’ are totally different. One of the ways you can tell when someone, whether it’s a film maker or executive or producer, wants to make a scary movie but doesn’t understand that distinction is they’ll want to recreate too much of what’s on TV. Jason Blum Read Quote
You’ve got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that’s a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you’re in real trouble. Jason Blum Read Quote
