Katie Aselton Quotes

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

In Bollywood, people have been making movies for more than half a century and they are made in such a way that you need not shed off all your inhibitions.

All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

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.

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.