Elisabeth Shue Quotes

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

What matters is whether the audience likes the film or not. Everything else is secondary.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

We can't say whether a film will be a hit or flop. There's something which just clicks with people.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

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.

'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'