Paula Garces Quotes

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

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

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

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.

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

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

I don't see a lot, but I think what the movie studios know and what they always know but they kind of ignore, which is that a there's an audience for movies like 'Get Out,' and 'Hidden Figures,' and to some extent 'Moonlight,' which made a lot less money than 'Hidden Figures' did.

For people to keep saying, 'We want to see more of this guy, even though the shows have not always been out-of-the-box successes,' is a huge compliment to me.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

My goal is not to make a 100 crore film but a film which has got content.

I really believe quality over quantity and 'Mardaani' was really well-received. It got me critical acclaim and box-office success, both.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

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

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.