Marion Cotillard Quotes

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

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.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

It is nice to be validated by audiences and have people come up to you after a screening and tell you that they loved the movie. It never gets old.

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.

At the end of the day, all I want is that my films should do well.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

It's not enough that you act in a movie - if it has to work, the audience should like it.

I am very happy that all my films are getting positive reports in both Telugu and Tamil.

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

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

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

I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

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

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.

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

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

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.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.