Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

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

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

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!

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.

'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.

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.

When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics' reviews and box office figures.

We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.

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

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

Since 'Qismat' did well independently, it was embraced by Bollywood.