Holly Hunter Quotes

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

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

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 love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

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.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

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

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

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

'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.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

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

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

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

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.