Dawn Steel Quotes

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

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

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

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.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

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

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

I want to make sensible commercial films.

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.

My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.