Joel Siegel Quotes

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

My first movie that came out - 'Shopping,' a British movie starring Jude Law and Sadie Frost - there were certain journalists in the U.K. who just eviscerated that movie.

I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie.

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

I can't take 'The Room' and show it to an agent and say, 'Hey man, cast me in something.' It's an alien film.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.