Saqib Saleem Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

I've never made a film that lost money.

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

Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.

In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, 'Oh, my last film was a cult film.' I'd say, 'Oh, great, well I hope this one isn't!' I always say to Johnny Knoxville, 'How do you do it? You sort of do the same thing we did, except you made millions, and I made hundreds.'

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.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

I have never had the problem of finding a producer for my films. I think I am just lucky because my first film didn't do great box office business.

If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.

In '13 Assassins' the biggest challenge was that action period films, for budget reasons and because of the age of the actors involved, are not considered to be a good business decision by some companies.

Films are commercially viable when you work with a superstar. That's why I did 'London Dreams' and 'Ready.'

You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

I think the bigger the movie is, the harder it is to maintain the idea of an auteur. You're servicing something beyond just your own vision. Whenever there's a lot of money on the line, it is your responsibility to make sure that you're doing your best to have people not lose their money and to actually win by betting on it.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.