Making a remake..( On Writing)

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”  This quote was really confusing at first until Gould said, “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.” He is saying that all ideas are only yours but then they just go out.  I agree to this idea because it relates to me. When I was a kid (I think I was about 10 years old) my friend always tell me these funny stories, and I end up telling the stories to my other friends first. He gets really mad every time I do that because I always tell his stories differently.
      “Relax, it’s just a story, they will hear it anyway, “I said while turning back.
     And he grabs my arm and said, “No it’s not! It’s my story and I am supposed to tell it to them.”
I disagree because stories are supposed to be told and when you told someone a story, they will eventually tell your story to other people differently.  The reason why I told the story differently was because I didn’t like it at all. So what I did was I changed the characters and the settings but the idea of his story still remained. In short, I made a remake (Sort of like what Gould said).