Quote

Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.