Sam Neill Quotes

You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success.

My job is to make superhit films

Some movies work and some don't.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

My previous movie before 'Life Is Beautiful' was the same; they didn't release it so much in United States.

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

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

I want to make sensible commercial films.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

Films have been my only passion in life. I have always been proud of making films and will continue taking pride in all my films. I have never made a movie I have not believed in. However, though I love all my films, one tends to get attached to films that do well. But I do not have any regrets about making films that did not really do well at the box office.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

You've got the movie, distribution, and marketing. All are equally important, so educate yourself on how to do the best you can at each of them.

My films may not have a great opening, but I am not bothered about it. Whatever the numbers be, I want those viewers who come for my films to be excited about watching the movie.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.