Boney Kapoor Quotes

I enjoy working in movies that appeal to and will be seen by many people.

That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

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

'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

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.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

I love commercial cinema.

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.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.