Steve Buscemi Quotes

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

Just like multiplex theatres, the industry had become divided, making films that alienated one kind of audience or another. It was really time to come out of the niche and make something that, at a certain level, clicked with everyone. 'Wanted' did just that. It opened the gates once more.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

I would like to direct good actors, and there are good actors who are stars.