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Jason Blum

"I think the mistake people make with horror movies and what makes them successful is a lot of horror movies get made by people who don't really like them, so they don't respect them. And when you like horror and have admiration for it, that community knows that what's important for a horror movie is important for every other kind of movie."

Source : "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

Jason Blum

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“I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?”
“Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.”
“Itâ€™s therapy. Itâ€™s just something to do so youâ€™re not lost in your own not-so-nice thoughts, and itâ€™s an opportunity to think about something a lot nicer and to do something thatâ€™s with more purpose. So you do it, and you take your passion and you put a lot into it, and at some point you get recognized for it. But that recognition doesnâ€™t mean the man is without his own demons or without his own struggles.”
“Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.”
“It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.”
“The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.”
“I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.”
“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”

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