Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

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

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

As an actor, I can't be constantly worrying about the commercial returns of my film.

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.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

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

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.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

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.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

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

No star is bigger than the success of a film.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

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.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

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!

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

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

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.

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