American - Producer | 1969 -
In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were laid. I think if it weren't for 'The Purge,' 'Get Out' wouldn't resonate as a mainstream movie. You push on the taste of the audience, in a way, get them used to something, and then you keep pushing on it.
Jason Blum
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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.
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There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.
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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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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.
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YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.
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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.
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My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
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Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.
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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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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.
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