Ridley Scott Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

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.

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.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

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

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

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.

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.

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

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

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

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

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.'

You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

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.

I know it's easy to say the box-office numbers doesn't matter, but the reality is it actually does.