Bennett Miller Quotes

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

We can't say whether a film will be a hit or flop. There's something which just clicks with people.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

When my second film 'Dus' released, I was still getting compliments for 'Tum Bin' because it was a hit on satellite channels.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

They always find new ways of talking about my movies.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!