Ian McShane Quotes

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

With the success of 'Yevade Subramanyam' and 'Bhale Magadivoy,' the audience's faith in me has increased, which is a good sign.

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

Big-budget movies might have huge marketing budgets, but only some films have the content to stand out.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

I am sure 'Shakti' will set the screens on fire.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

Rob Hardy is such a great director.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

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.

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.