Material comes all kinds of ways, and it’s never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects – I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it’s a very different business than it was just 8 years ago. John Landis Read Quote
I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I’ve worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them. John Landis Read Quote
The idea of doing a children’s film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything – any genre. I’ve only made one Western, which was ‘Three Amigos,’ but I would love to make a serious Western. I’m just wide open. John Landis Read Quote
The guy that I worked on ‘Thriller ‘ was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with ‘Black Or White’ was crazy. Michael had gone mad. John Landis Read Quote
After ‘The Blues Brothers,’ I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. John Landis Read Quote
But what’s interesting is now – and not only in horror, but across the board – the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That’s the biggest difference. John Landis Read Quote
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn’t make any sense. John Landis Read Quote
