Joan Chen Quotes

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

The big money goes to kids and young men - big tent-pole movies, which are expensive but have a great return.

Women drive box office.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.

When I saw 'Shola Aur Shabnam' and 'Aankhen,' I did not anticipate that they would become such hits. They looked like B-plus projects.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

When I'm on the road making a movie in another city, on my day off, I always go to the movies. I love going to the movies. You get a ticket and sit there, and it's very interesting to be around people who aren't personally invested in you, in any way. They're just going to the movies.

I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.