Ted Sarandos Quotes

No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

I think 'Party Down' found its audience primarily on Netflix and stuff like that, and primarily after it had been cancelled.

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

With the blessing of social media and platforms like Amazon Prime and Netflix, you get this broad audience that I don't think we knew about when we were kids.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

I think 'Befikre' has got a polarised response. Some people absolutely loved it and some didn't feel connected with the film. I feel the film is a little bit ahead of its time.

I remember a few years ago, two of my films - Gulzar Saab's 'Hu tu tu' and Shakeel Noorani's 'Bade Dilwala' - were released simultaneously. 'Bade Dilwala' suffered although it was a good film.

Really bad reviews can hurt pretty much any movie. They say that some films are review-proof, but I think that's probably big high-concept movies, comedies, and so on. But, on the whole, if a film gets dreadful reviews, it will affect its business.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

Only the right films work.

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.