Roman Coppola Quotes

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

I've never made a film that lost money.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

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.

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

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.'

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.