Stanley Kubrick Quotes

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.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.

You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don't want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

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.

If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

The success of 'Bodyguard' is a tribute to the magnetism of our two leads, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.

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

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

I want all my films to do well.

For 'Guest Iin London,' I got a lot of appreciation.

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

The reason I prefer working with established actors and stars is because they are more popular, and the film reaches out to more people and do well in terms of numbers, too.

The Boosh was cult, but then it crossed over a bit, which we needed it to, because we were working on it full time, and it needed to go mainstream so we could keep making material.

Until 'Bangalore Days' happened, a huge commercial success had not happened to me.

'Cabaret' was the most commercial success that I've been involved in.