Neill Blomkamp Quotes

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I am not worried about people's expectations. I just want to get the film right.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

[Sometimes] I will go through periods where I will think 'Oh maybe I should do a commercial movie' and then I just think, someone gave me a really great piece of advice, someone from my agency weirdly, they said the only clients that are happy are the ones that just do what they want to do. So I just kind of do everything for myself.

Obviously 'Pete's Dragon' is more commercial than 'A Ghost Story,' but when making them, I'm just trying to tell a story that matters to me, that ultimately would satisfy me as a moviegoer. Because watching movies is my favorite thing to do. I watch a lot of them.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it.

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.