Radhika Pandit Quotes

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

I am known by my performance, so neither do big films need me nor do I big films.

I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

My whole life is my work.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.

It's nice to always have been able to remain consistent. I'm very thankful for that and to work on shows that I can be proud of, and films.