Jerry Bruckheimer Quotes

To the extent that movies get released, they are generally not big box-office generators. Hollywood is clearly focusing on their holiday releases coming up and those will either make or break the year.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

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.

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.

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

I think, it's important to understand how to release a film.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

Films are a business. They take who's working.

I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

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.

I never think about the budget of the film.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

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

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

Every movie I do, regardless of how they fare at the box office, excites me.

I have never had the problem of finding a producer for my films. I think I am just lucky because my first film didn't do great box office business.