Allu Arjun Quotes

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.