Commercial Cinema Quotes

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

The audience loves watching masala films, and I love to make what the audience likes. I also think it is easy to make a masala film.

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

I don't want to choose between commercial and independent cinema. I just want to choose between a good film and a bad film.

'Piku' is not at all a film in the Bollywood kind of way.

I'm a fan of commercial films.

I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.

I don't attribute any 'luck' to 'Bol Bachchan''s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

I was looking to be a part of commercial cinema and that was when I signed 'Jodi.'

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

I'm not gonna rush out and see the next 'Batman;' I'm not big on formula movies.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

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

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

Kollywood allots big budget only for commercial films. Bollywood film industry is straightforward that way. When compared to Bollywood, Kollywood is fake. They keep churning out the same films.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.