Michelle Yeoh Quotes

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

I never knew Artist was going to get this big. When I was making it, I put my all into it. But you never know what's going to happen with something you make.

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

You never know what's going to be considered a hit, or what people are going to like.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.