Scarlett Johansson Quotes

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I'm not going to do anything that I don't think is very funny, even if it's a lot of money or massive exposure.

I can't be in a film that I wouldn't like to watch as audience.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

I wouldn't put out anything that I didn't want to ride to.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

I just make films that attract me.

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

I never choose a genre over quality. I never think, 'I want to do that,' and sacrifice the fact it might not be very good.

I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

I've made movies where I was not happy, and I'd rather not work for a year than do a bad film. It takes a long time for me to recuperate when I do that.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

I would like to say to as many people as possible that please go and see the film 'Jaana,' because we all have worked hard to make it a good film.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.