Jason Blum

“The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.”

“I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if all we did were sequels, but in the same breath, I'll say that I wouldn't be creatively satisfied if everything was an original. It's good to use the different parts of my brain. Very different rules apply.”

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

“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.”

“The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.”

“I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.”

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

“John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.”

“I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.”

“You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'”

“Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.' Nobody. Nobody wanted to make 'The Purge.' I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make 'The Gift,' when it was a script called 'Weirdo.'”

“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.”

“I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.”

“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.”

“I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.”

“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.”

“I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.”

“I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.”

“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.”

“I'm always trying to make movies that are better than the ones that we've made before. We don't always succeed at doing that by any means, but we're always trying to raise the stakes, raise the bar, make the movies better, and that's hard.”