Cate Blanchett Quotes

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

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.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.