Lou Diamond Phillips Quotes

The initial response to 'Yennai Arindhaal' was that it didn't have all the quintessential commercial elements, though I consider it as my most commercial venture.

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

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.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

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

I want to make sensible commercial films.

I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

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.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

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

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out, they'd have told you the pirate movie was a dead genre. And it's not that it's a dead genre. If you make a bad pirate movie, no one will want to see it. If you make a good one, everyone will want to see it.

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.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

In Tamil and Telugu, I have to do mainstream commercial films. Irrespective of what I want to do, the audience wants to see me in that 'mass' space.

Women drive box office.