Emily Blunt Quotes

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

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

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I'd like to enter in and out of that big budget world, rather than staying in it. It's not the case that the bigger the film, the better it is.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

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.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.