Devin Ratray Quotes

Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film.

I knew that when the trailer of 'Bahubali' released, it would have a great impact, and it did.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

My films do very well on home video.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'

'Baahubali' was really the film that broke most barriers of what regional cinema can do nationally.

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

One Missed Call,' it was regarded as a mainstream film for my career because it was big budget and filmed in Japan and it really opened wide in Japan, it did really well commercially. So I was really surprised.

'Aashiqui 2' and 'Yeh Jawaani' were hit films, especially the former film in which I was the protagonist.

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.