Jiang Wen Quotes

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!

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

I have made all my monies through cinema.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

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.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

Hollywood has been an enormous part of my life, as I know it has been for countless fans all over the world.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

Though I have been acclaimed for 'Newton,' but my personally favourite is 'Gurgaon.'

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

Bollywood is getting bigger and better.

2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.

When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.