Kunal Khemu Quotes

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

A lot of people don't like child actors.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.

It's not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like 'Nippu,' 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu' and 'Sarostaru' which were really bad. But, 'Veera' and 'Dharuvu' had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my 'flop list.'

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three were in the can and had not yet been released. So I was driving around having a fine time learning about how to make movies and enjoying myself enormously, and then they were released, and it was quite an assault, in a way.

I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.