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Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.

— Alia Bhatt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

— Graham Phillips

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

— Ang Lee

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

— Ryan Gosling

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

— Miranda Otto

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

— Seth Gordon

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

— Bob Hoskins

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

— Willem Dafoe

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

— Kevin Costner

✗Opposing Perspectives

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

— George Lucas

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.

— Isabelle Huppert