Rajkummar Rao Quotes

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

I want all my films to do well.

At the end of the day, all I want is that my films should do well.

Everyone wants their film to do well and I am no different from them.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don't want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

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.

My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

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.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

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