Brenda Blethyn Quotes

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I feel 'Mom' is not just a successful film but a satisfying one.

It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

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

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

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.

There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.