His films have been dismissed by critics as mere glossy melodramas, escapist, elitist, irrelevant, and far-removed from the social realism of a Lino Brocka, the social satire of Ishmael Bernal, the scope and breadth of an Eddie Romero epic. But Danny Zialcita never gave much importance to criticisms and never cared about critics. In an interview with movie journalist, Arthur Quinto in 1983, he declared: “I am not in a social revolution...I am not a rebel with or without a cause. My aim is just to please the public...to entertain...Very few people would like to see depressing things. Depression is felt everywhere. Will you pay P 5.50 [the price of a movie ticket then] to be depressed? My kind of fun is to see long queues — people lining up to see my movie...People who see my films are paying their hard-earned money, and that is an achievement by itself. Hindi ba mas masarap ang maraming tao ang makakagusto ng pelikula mo kaysa mga sampu o labindalawa lang?”
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