Vikram Bhatt Quotes

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

Big feature films are another world.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

I'm telling you, man, after I did 'Land of the Dead,' which Mark Canton produced, Universal picked it up, and I had to use stars. I didn't think I needed stars - Dennis Hopper was in it. I loved him. We hung out. I loved him, but his cigar budget was more than we paid for the entire budget of 'Night of the Living Dead.'

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

Star power opened 'Mission Mangal.'

I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

Stars are always bigger. They bring the audience to the theatres. More than that, they do a lot of work in a film, and they are always on top. I am in no way competing with them.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

My job is to make superhit films

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.