Byron Allen Quotes

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

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

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.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

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

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

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

I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

The sidekick business has been good to me.

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

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

At the end of the day, all I want is that my films should do well.

Andy always thought that films would be where we'd make money.

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.