The viewers have the brains to decide the merits of a film and there is no point in blaming them if it flops.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.
There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.
Every movie gets exactly what it deserves.
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.
The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that's scary, people will come.
I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.
There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
I believe that if your film is good, and if you are good, you will do well.
Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there are a lot of really horrible independent movies made.
You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.
What matters is whether the audience likes the film or not. Everything else is secondary.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.
Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
