Kiran Rao Quotes

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

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 don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

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

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

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

Sure, you can do something frothy and ridiculous, but you should probably be confident that it's going to be a sure-fire hit. Then it's sensible, because it enables you to make smaller movies. But if you make something frothy and ridiculous that doesn't work, it's not worth it.

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

If my films don't do well, nobody is going to give me films.

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

We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

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 problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.