149 Quotes by Jason Blum

Let's keep making inexpensive movies.

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

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.

When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.