Nani Quotes

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.

I am very happy to have debuted in Telugu with a film like 'Guru.'

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.