Adam Green Quotes

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

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.

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

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.