Jon Favreau Quotes

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.

Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.

The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.

A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly.

I've been seeing superhero movies as long as I can remember. I don't think they're going anywhere.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.

When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.

It is very hard for me to think of Logan without thinking of Hugh Jackman and I have no idea who out there could take over from him if they moved ahead. It's like thinking of anyone other than Harrison Ford playing Han Solo or Indiana Jones.

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

It's a hugely popular franchise, and every 'Housefull' film has worked well at the box office.

'Hook' became a cult classic without all the lore.

'The Dark Knight Rises' does not beat 'The Avengers. ' The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie - to compare them is an empty exercise.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

A movie will live or die with your casting.

I root for 'Spawn' and every other comic-book movie. I hope all of them are successful because, any time one fails, it makes it that much harder to get one made.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

It's not enough that you act in a movie - if it has to work, the audience should like it.

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