Huma Qureshi Quotes

I am happy my films have done well in Kerala.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

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.

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

In America, we believe that competition strengthens us.

America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.