Antoine Fuqua Quotes

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

I want to do 'Company of Heroes 2,' if they do it. It depends on how the movie performs, but they hope it will perform well. They have a franchise on their mind, and if it's a franchise, man, I'm going to be a very happy person.

It's a hugely popular franchise, and every 'Housefull' film has worked well at the box office.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

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

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

I don't think action alone is enough to sustain a film franchise. There are tons of action movies out there that come and go and people don't care about.

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.'

Dabangg' is an actor-driven franchise.

Frankly speaking, during the making of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety,' we never realised that the movie is going to be such a hit and that it will change our lives so much. There have been movies which have done really well at the box office, but rarely do we have movies where actors get so much love and adulation from their fans.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

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

Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.

We made 'Housefull 4' because 1, 2 and 3 were loved by the audience.

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

Star power opened 'Mission Mangal.'

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!

I knew that when the trailer of 'Bahubali' released, it would have a great impact, and it did.