Jeff Bridges Quotes

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

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

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

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.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

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

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

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

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. I don't look at American History X as a failure, or Fight Club as a failure, or 25th Hour as a failure, or Larry Flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that I care about that I've made that were not immediately successful. I'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars

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

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

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Even the multiplex audience wants this flavour. No big-budget film can be a commercial hit until it does well both at multiplexes and single screens. 'Ghajini' and 'Dabangg' are examples.

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.

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.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.