Karthi Quotes

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

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

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.

When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

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.

Hits and flops are overrated.

Some films will work, some won't.

It came right on the heels of A Room With A View. And that was such an enormous success, so I think people were hoping that Maurice would also have that kind of success.

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

No matter how much buzz you create for a film, it's the content that finally gets judged.

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

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

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.

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

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Time can be very good or very cruel to films.