Mani Ratnam Quotes

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

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

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

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.

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

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.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

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

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

I make commercial films only. I don't make small, boring films.

The broadcast networks - they are literally broad. They try to appeal to everyone. They try to reach all of America, all the time. Increasingly, they fail to do that, but they try.

I love commercial cinema.

Just like multiplex theatres, the industry had become divided, making films that alienated one kind of audience or another. It was really time to come out of the niche and make something that, at a certain level, clicked with everyone. 'Wanted' did just that. It opened the gates once more.