Asrani Quotes

When I see good films not doing well, irrespective of my role being appreciated or not, I have a problem because then the producer who has made a loss will never believe in investing in good cinema.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

The consolidated appreciation that 'Eega' is the pride of the Telugu film industry is the biggest award I can get.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

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

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

The power and reach of music should never be underestimated.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

Some independent Indian films do so well at these festivals in Europe and in the United States that when they come back, India just cannot ignore them.

Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.