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
believer creating low movies parameters people starts
I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.
figured framework great job
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.
age hopefully life minute
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.
finally good horror reasons resistant scary
Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.
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.
budget business hire larger mainly movies producer
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.
good great horror interested movies people series
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.
hard succeeds theatrical wide
It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.
audience filmmakers helps minutes people scare spend stuff
I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.
anyone exact
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.
paid work
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.
fun kids thinking
I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.
weekend thinking people
I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.
kids thinking way
The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.