Audrey Tautou Quotes

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

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

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

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 haven't earned much money through films.

As an actor, you're always told that your career needs box-office numbers.

I want to be a commercially viable actor. I want that the distributors and producers should earn the money; then only, you become a bankable actor.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

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.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

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.

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

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

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.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

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 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.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.