Popular Films Quotes

Qurbani' happened at a time when all kinds of special films were happening to my career - 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram,' 'Shalimar,' 'Abdullah.'

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of my favourite films. It was a real Christmas classic, and it was one of the most popular films ever in British history.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

I get a lot of love from Delhiites. My producers tell me that my films do really well here.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.

I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don't have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I'm always busy. But I'm always happy to see a popular movie.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

My audiences love watching my films.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Often times I don't watch the Oscars because I say this isn't for me.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

When I saw 'Shola Aur Shabnam' and 'Aankhen,' I did not anticipate that they would become such hits. They looked like B-plus projects.

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

I love commercial cinema.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema.