Critical Success Quotes

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

I am doing the remake of 'Bai Chali Sasariye,' which was my debut in the Rajasthani film industry. It became a major critical and commercial hit in the history of Rajasthani cinema.

Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

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

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

The big plays will come.

No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

I've only experienced it a few times where you get to have a thing that simultaneously gets some critical respect, some critical success, while also having sales success. Sometimes you get one or the other if you're lucky.

My life and career can be divided into pre- and post- 'Paruthiveeran.'

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

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

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

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.