Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

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

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

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

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

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.

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

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

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

Baghbaan' is a totally commercial film.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.

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

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.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

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.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Box office success definitely matters. I will be lying if say it does not matter.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

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!

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.