Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.

I never wanted to make movies just for me. I want to make movies that people watch.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.