Edward Norton Quotes

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some reason it doesn't get the audience. So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

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.

Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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

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.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

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

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.

Of all my movies, I feel that 'Krishna Gopalakrishna' remains one of my best works though it could not be called a box office success. I maintain that it was far ahead of its time.

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

When I see good films not doing well, irrespective of my role being appreciated or not, I have a problem because then the producer who has made a loss will never believe in investing in good cinema.

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.