Yvette Mimieux Quotes

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

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

Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

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

Really bad reviews can hurt pretty much any movie. They say that some films are review-proof, but I think that's probably big high-concept movies, comedies, and so on. But, on the whole, if a film gets dreadful reviews, it will affect its business.

The budget of 'Vada Chennai' is nearly Rs 60 crores.

I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

I think what people think about my films depends on the film they see. It's all different and opinions are all different.