Tessa Thompson Quotes

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

Horror film fans are pretty starved for quality. If you do something thoughtful or if you make something good, they're so thankful for it.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

More meaningful cinema is being made, and that is the reason why you see a rejuvenated Malayalam film industry. But more films aimed at youth are needed.

It's important to be a part of good films.

I think that the Punjabi film industry is growing and is keen to experiment with different genres.

If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.

The lack of 'quality' films in Pakistan was one of the reasons why I stayed away.

I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience.

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

I can't be part of what is being done in films these days and hence I don't do films anymore.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

My goal is not to make a 100 crore film but a film which has got content.

Most filmmakers looked at it as a medium to palm off sub-standard stuff. I don't look at it like that. Your TV screen, mobile screen is as relevant as a cinema hall.