Greta Garbo Quotes

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

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

I am proud being an artist who takes risks, who would walk off a cliff artistically. I won't settle for commercial reasons.

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

I am glad that we can make bold films, different films within the commercial market and still do well.

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

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.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

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 want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

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.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

I'd love more production houses to encourage artists to create what they want and not just churn things out.

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

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

Just because good films don't work does not mean we should stop making them.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.