Yami Gautam Quotes

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

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

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

Every movie I touched bombed.

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

'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.

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

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.

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

I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.

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

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

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.

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

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.