Michael Lehmann Quotes

'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.

TMOK' is a family film, and everyone would like to watch the film. I'll be very happy even if I get 50 to 65 per cent of the box-office opening that 'Ra.One' gets.

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S.

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've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

When my second film 'Dus' released, I was still getting compliments for 'Tum Bin' because it was a hit on satellite channels.

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

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.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

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

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.

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

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

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.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

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.