Aamir Khan Quotes

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.

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

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

I would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can't be.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's better to do a film that works.

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.

A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a direct reflection of each film's box-office performance. You will not catch him complaining that the audience 'didn't get' a film; if it didn't do well, it generally didn't deserve to.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

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

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

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.

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

The success of 'Bhagam Bhag' was very important.

At the end of it, box office result matters. And the weird thing is that we do not know the formula of that.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.