Todd McFarlane Quotes

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

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.

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well 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.

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

I was confident about the potential of 'Baaghi 2' when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

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

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'

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.

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

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

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.

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.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.