Perhaps it is not completely fair to measure a filmmaker's value by how much his movies gross. Even top directors have the occasional box-office flop, like Steven Spielberg's recent slavery film Amistad, which wasn't even screened in many countries.
以票房來衡量電影人的價值，也許不盡公平，美國導演史提芬史匹柏的電影也不是部部賣錢，去年一部以販賣黑奴為主題的電影賣座就很淒慘，沒有幾個國家上映。