149 Quotes by Jason Blum

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.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

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.

I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

I think there's room for people to love 'Transformers' and love 'Insidious.' They coexist in a happy way; in other words, my movies wouldn't exist if 'Transformers' didn't exist, because they're an alternative to that. They're not better or worse, they're just different.