Holly Hunter Quotes

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

'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.

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a hit.

I was confident about the potential of 'Baaghi 2' when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.

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.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in 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 just hope, every now and then, the studios still slip one of my movies in.

A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

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

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.