Will Self Quotes

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy. It's very hard to go down there and make a film like 'Sideways,' which I thought was a great film. They don't want to make films like that anymore, even though that film was very successful.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

I can't differentiate between mass and class films.

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.

Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

Since the time I was a kid, I used to love big films.

No one is bigger than cinema.

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

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

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

Bollywood gives you an immense reach. The stars have a huge fan base. The amount spent on promoting a film is incredible. To be part of such productions, in some way or the other, is a blessing for any artiste.

Bollywood is getting bigger and better.