Tommy Wiseau Quotes

I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'

I can't stress it enough that we genuinely love 'The Room.' Like I said, I've seen it more than any other movie that's ever been made, and it gets to a point where if a movie is that watchable, when can we just call it a good movie?

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

The Room' has just been something that has spread for so many years in such an organic way because, it's just people wanting to share it with their friends and take people to the theater to see it.

Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.

'Company' has become a cult film. When people see me at the airport, and when I travel, they call me 'Companywala.'

I have seen the movie 'Showgirls' over 25 times.

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.

'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.

Usually, the worst films become cult films.

When they made 'Rocky Horror' in the '70s, they had no idea it would become this 41-year phenomenon that it has become.

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in.

After 'The Room' premiered in 2003 - which went exactly as it does in 'The Disaster Artist' - I didn't think it was going to go anywhere. It wasn't a film I wanted to share with people.

Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do.