Walt Disney Quotes

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.

I'm interested in the kind of anti-establishment ethos that goes with making an independent movie. I like to bring that to studio films - usually to the consternation of the studios.

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.