Sajid Nadiadwala Quotes

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.

I believe in one thing, and that is content, because if your content is strong, the film will surely be hit at the box office.

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.

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.

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

Big-budget movies might have huge marketing budgets, but only some films have the content to stand out.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

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.

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

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 can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

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

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

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.

No one can guarantee success of a film.