Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

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've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.

I cannot put pressure on myself that I have delivered a Rs 100 crore film and now I have to give it again or it will not be successful. Films that earn Rs 50 crore or Rs 60 crore are successful, too.

The box office isn't something I consider. If I do, I can't really work.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.