Barren Quote by Jack Valenti

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age…

— Wim Wenders

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only…

— Alexander Payne

That's when it becomes a business. When you've been public a long time, when it's a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

— Angelina Jolie

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes…

— Dev Anand

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

— Joaquin Phoenix

A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well can also…

— Ronnie Screwvala

I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image…

— Rian Johnson

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on…

— Willem Dafoe

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get…

— Jerry Lewis

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not…

— Lucrecia Martel

Success of a film is not only based on the film being good or bad. A lot of other factors are involved as well.

— Kunal Khemu

When a film that we have worked on is successful and garners public appreciation, it makes us feel satisfied.

— Bhumika Chawla