Melanie Laurent Quotes

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I don't put any pressure on myself in terms of what people or fans do or don't want. It really just doesn't occur to me. I honestly just want to make the films I want to see as a fan. The film will survive or fail in my mind by how much I like it. Having said that, everyone wants their films to do well and to be well-received.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium.

I am keen to do quality films; it is not quantity that I am looking at.

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 want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies... While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.