Timothy Spall Quotes

I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

My job is to make superhit films

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.

I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.