Jon Feltheimer Quotes

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

I know it's easy to say the box-office numbers doesn't matter, but the reality is it actually does.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.

'Escape Plan' did better in China than it did in the U.S.

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

I cannot put pressure on myself that I have delivered a Rs 100 crore film and now I have to give it again or it will not be successful. Films that earn Rs 50 crore or Rs 60 crore are successful, too.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

Foreign distribution is a major aspect of financing films. If you're flooding an entire country with cam rips DVDs before the movie is released, that will affect the bottom line eventually.