David Strathairn Quotes

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

I want every movie to have a big audience. I'm always hopeful that it's going to be discovered, and audiences are fantastic that way because every once in a while they surprise you. I didn't think 'Beautiful Mind' was going to be that kind of global success.

Big-budget movies might have huge marketing budgets, but only some films have the content to stand out.

You need stars to create the buzz and bring audiences to the cinemas.

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

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.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

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

Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.

Balaji has always had great market presence, be it in film or television - everyone was talking about the titles, about what happened on the sets, even the most bizarre and outrageous things are out there to be judged by audiences who inevitably decide to come to the theatres to watch our film.

Smaller films that have a great run at the festivals usually result in the audience promoting the film on social media and so on.

The entire team of 'Race 3' is really happy because the film is doing good business at the box office.

I want all my films to do well.

I am really happy with the appreciation 'Baahubali' is receiving. Its success proves that if you back the right content, it can travel across the country and the globe.

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

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.