Delroy Lindo Quotes

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

I think I learned very quickly after I started putting out music... you just learn that people are going to take what they want and make it fit their agenda or make it fit their interpretation. And you make peace with that or you suffer forever.

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]

I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.

Even when 'Kaakha Kaakha' was released, there were people who gave it an average rating and said they couldn't figure out what was happening. Three days after its release, the producer called me and asked me to remove all of Jothika's scenes from the film. I told him; in that case, you can also remove my name from the director's slot.

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

I think 'Befikre' has got a polarised response. Some people absolutely loved it and some didn't feel connected with the film. I feel the film is a little bit ahead of its time.

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

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.

My films are as much for the people as they are for me. The reception affects me, but doesn't change me as a person. That's important.