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Growing up in the '70s and '80s when my dad had an art gallery, one of the things that frustrated me was the world seemed so tiny, and to appreciate contemporary art, you needed a history of art, a formal education. I was more interested in the people, and that's why I went into the movie business in the first place.
- Jason Blum
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I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.
- Jason Blum
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#Job
#Me
#Proud
#World
What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.
- Jason Blum
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#Decision
#Every
#Love
#Money
#Movies
'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud.
- Jason Blum
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#Always
#I Am
#Looking
#Proud
I don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity, but one time I think I saw - I might have seen - no, I think I did see a ghost.
- Jason Blum
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#Believe
#Ghosts
#See
#Time
When I was working for Miramax, before Sundance, a videotape of 'The Blair Witch Project' - of the full, completed movie - went to a lot of the buyers. And so we all saw it before the festival, and I passed, a bunch of people passed... Then I watched the movie marching toward success, and was reminded by my bosses what a dope I was.
- Jason Blum
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#People
#Project
#Success
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.
- Jason Blum
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#Interview
#Now
#Shame
#Someone
When you work in low budgets, you can do weird stuff.
- Jason Blum
#Budgets
#Low
#Stuff
#Weird
#Work
The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.
- Jason Blum
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#Point
#Us
#Want
#Work
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.
- Jason Blum
#Hard
#Make
#Market
#Place
#Release
What I loved about 'War Dogs' was the fact that the tone - turning that story into a spectacular two hour ride is just such a complicated thing to do.
- Jason Blum
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#Ride
#Story
#Two
#War
Working with kids is always hard because you have to have very limited hours. They have to have breaks, and they have to have a tutor, and they have to have a lot of - good things! But it makes it hard to shoot.
- Jason Blum
#Always
#Good Things
#Good
#Hard
#Shoot
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.
- Jason Blum
#Better
#Big
#Creativity
#Movies
#People
I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.
- Jason Blum
#Beginning
#Know
#People
#Pressure
#Try
The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that's scary, people will come.
- Jason Blum
#Business
#Good
#Movies
#People
#Will
Halloween is woke, and there's nothing we can do about it.
- Jason Blum
#About
#Halloween
#Nothing
#Woke
I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.
- Jason Blum
#Finance
#Lose
#Money
#Movies
#Work
Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of them.
- Jason Blum
#Love
#Message
#More
#Movies
#Social
I couldn't stand it. It was what I thought I always wanted. I was there every day in the trenches, and I hated everything about that job. But what I loved - and what I got from 'The Tooth Fairy' - was to see how studio movies were released.
- Jason Blum
#Day
#Every Day
#Movies
#See
#Stand
#Trenches
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
- Jason Blum
#Art
#Everybody
#People
#Understand
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