Sam Neill Quotes

'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.

Since 'Qismat' did well independently, it was embraced by Bollywood.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

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

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.

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

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.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

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

'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

The initial response to 'Yennai Arindhaal' was that it didn't have all the quintessential commercial elements, though I consider it as my most commercial venture.

A Fantastic Woman' has been seen as very interesting and entertaining. The film has had very good reactions. We are very surprised and delighted how the characters have connected with so many people.