Wes Craven Quotes

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

If you do a bad role in a film, you may not get television offers in future.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Every movie I touched bombed.

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

If things don't go well, the manager is on his way because it's such a blow if you drop into the lower divisions.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

No, Hal Needham without Burt Reynolds has not done well. 'Megaforce' went right in the toilet.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

People spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies that don't do anything. I mean, no one's talking about 'Pacific Rim' today. No one's talking about 'The Lone Ranger,' and those were $100 million movies that didn't have nearly the impact that 'Sharknado' did.

There are movies that we have done that haven't come out very well. That doesn't feel very good. But 'Jem' is in a different category. I'm proud of the movie. I stand by the movie, but I'm obviously sorry it didn't do any better.

'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.