Rutger Hauer Quotes

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

What has helped me is my success in commercial cinema. It has given me a platform for others to cast me in their films. If I did not have the commercial success, then I wouldn't be able to do the smaller films.

Big films help your reach a wider audience, and doing independent films keeps your artistic side happy.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't feel the need to work with the super established, top-tier directors that are out there.

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

I don't care about how many records I sell, but the main thing is people like it.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.