Mahira Khan Quotes

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

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

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.

What eventually counts is whether your film was successful at the box-office or not, or more so if the film has made its money, and 'Race 3' did that.

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

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

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 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.

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million.

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.

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

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

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.

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

Even the multiplex audience wants this flavour. No big-budget film can be a commercial hit until it does well both at multiplexes and single screens. 'Ghajini' and 'Dabangg' are examples.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

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

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.