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
Jason Blum quotes about
thinking trying quality
But one of the rules I don't like to break is we still do - 95% of our movies are low budget. We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions, there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.
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.
reading scripts want
My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
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.
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.
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.
inexpensive
Let's keep making inexpensive movies.
art horror i-love-music
I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.
thinking creating people
I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.