Jay Roach Quotes

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

My films may not have a great opening, but I am not bothered about it. Whatever the numbers be, I want those viewers who come for my films to be excited about watching the movie.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.

The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.

No one knows why a film does well or not. The reasons for this are not important. What is important is the intention you start the film with and the final state when the film releases on a Friday - whether people liked it or not.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

The audience in Kerala have been giving a good response to my films, including 'Paiyaa' and 'Siruthai.'

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

'ABCD - AnyBody Can Dance' and 'ABCD 2' has succeeded not merely because of dance, but mainly because of its good script. Viewers have loved the story, and that's why my movies have done well at the box office.

Our goal is to focus on the unique points of view of our show creators but make shows that have broad appeal.

Our films tremendously influence people. But at the same time, no one goes to the cinema to listen to lectures, so if you have an interesting story, and if you can showcase it as a film, and its messages are good, then it's like an icing on the cake: it shall be a superhit. And if I get those kind of films, I'll definitely want to work on it.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.