Jason Blum
Jason Blum
Jason Ferus Blum is an American film producer. Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions. He won the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing The Normal Heart, and was nominated for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Whiplash...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
CountryUnited States of America
art horror i-love-music
I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.
giving creative anything-goes
There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.
kids opposites two
For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.
reading scripts want
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
inexpensive
Let's keep making inexpensive movies.
laughing people scared
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
love-is long people
People love being scared, even for long periods of time.
art people found
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
college class paper
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
thinking important casting
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.
money movies spending strict worse
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.
drives movies people snobby
I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.
becoming cool looking movies shows skype tv work
I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to work its way into movies and TV shows in all different ways, which I think is really cool.
There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.