It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.
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I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.
I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.
The minute you start the process of deciding to make a film and you're communicating that vision to anyone, you're in the process of selling. If you don't understand that, you're not in show business. You're just not.