Frank Oz Quotes

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

The 'Reno' movie is very solid. 'Balls of Fury' I'm pretty disappointed in - I blame myself. People hate both of those movies equally.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

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

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.