Rana Daggubati Quotes

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.

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

Every movie I touched bombed.

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

'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.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

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

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

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

We never thought the first movie would bomb.

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

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.

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.

'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.

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

We were to work in a film titled 'Zabardast'. Unfortunately, this film didn't take off. After this, I never got another chance to work with him, I regret not having worked with Dilip Kumar.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

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.

The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.