Asin Quotes

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

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.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Boyapati is one of the few directors who can pull off a masala film like 'Sarrainodu'.

'Masti' did so well. It was unexpected and clicked very well with masses.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

In Tamil and Telugu, I have to do mainstream commercial films. Irrespective of what I want to do, the audience wants to see me in that 'mass' space.

The kind of love that people have for Hrithik and me, if there were a 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai 2,' the film will get a bumper opening only, for sure.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.