Taylor Kitsch Quotes

I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don't want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

Sometimes I know a film might not pull the audience to the theatres and have a great collection at the box office. But I need to do these films for creative satisfaction and give something different to the audience.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

I produced 'Highway' and 'Chhichhore' for creative satisfaction.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

At the end of the day, all I want is that my films should do well.

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.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

Working in a hugely, commercially successful film benefits everyone.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.

As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.

My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?

The commercial success that came with Anjali Menon's 'Bangalore Days' helped me in getting my work noticed.

Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.