Madhur Bhandarkar Quotes

Every movie I touched bombed.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

No, Hal Needham without Burt Reynolds has not done well. 'Megaforce' went right in the toilet.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.