Michelle Yeoh Quotes

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.

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.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.