Film Merit Quotes

I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.

The viewers have the brains to decide the merits of a film and there is no point in blaming them if it flops.

I don't want to choose between commercial and independent cinema. I just want to choose between a good film and a bad film.

A good film is a good film.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

Promotions create awareness, but if there is no merit to the film, what will promotions do anyway?

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.

If the film is good, it will work whether it has a star or no star.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

All the films that I have signed or I intend to sign are purely on the basis of merit of what the films are about.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.