Will Poulter Quotes

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

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

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

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.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

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

The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

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.

'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.

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.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.