Takashi Miike Quotes

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

'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

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

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.

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

What eventually counts is whether your film was successful at the box-office or not, or more so if the film has made its money, and 'Race 3' did that.

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

It's a happy thing if a film does good business.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

Sometimes you feel you're making something really special and when it comes out you might still feel that way but for some reason it doesn't get the audience. So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film.

I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

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!"

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

My first film, 'Ishaqzaade,' did well, and I got four damn good films because of it.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

I've a track record of successful comedy films spread over more than a decade.

I got my first film, 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl,' easily.