Blythe Danner Quotes

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

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.

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

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.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

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.

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

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

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.