Chris Lilley Quotes

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

I want to be read. When you write a TV show like 'The Wire,' you've got three to four million readers watching your work. Even Grisham doesn't sell that many books.

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

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a 'Sopranos'.

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.

TV has the most reach among the audience. Movies are watched only by those who like cinema.

The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

When we are part of mainstream cinema, we want our movies to be seen by maximum viewers.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

When I was approached to remake 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya,' I felt that it was a good way to reach out to a wider audience, every director wants that.

I mean, people have created great shows, produced wonderful television, and nobody tunes in. For whatever reason, it just doesn't resonate with the masses. And vice versa, people have produced some really crappy television and mediocre stuff, and for some reason it hits. And there's no rhyme or reason.

The Situation has mass appeal.

What we forget is that the Academy is a star-maker, or it reinforces the stardom of people.

As much as I like being part of commercial films that give me visibility with a wide audience, and love being the glamourous girl, at the end of the day, I am an actor, and nothing can be more satisfying than being appreciated for my craft.

I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.

I enjoy working in movies that appeal to and will be seen by many people.