Karyn Kusama Quotes

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

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

I get terrible reviews, but there are people who like to see me in the movies, I guess.

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

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

I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

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

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.