Simon Baker Quotes

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.

If the film is good, it will work whether it has a star or no star.

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

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

What matters is whether the audience likes the film or not. Everything else is secondary.

Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.

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.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

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

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.