Rhea Chakraborty Quotes

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

Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

At the end of it, box office result matters. And the weird thing is that we do not know the formula of that.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

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

Everybody goes and sees 'Fantastic Four,' but nobody sees 'Sunshine.' I'd have a different career if people saw that.

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

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

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.

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

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.'

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

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.

This whole game of hit and flops will always be there and I have survived because I am hit. I think industry works on hit and flop.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.

My job is to make superhit films

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

Some movies work and some don't.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.