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
falling-in-love creative complicated
You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.
creative lows budgets
We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.
giving people creative
The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.
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.
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.
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.
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.