Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

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

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

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.

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.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

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

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 really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

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.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

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.

Some films will work, some won't.

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

To what extent a film works is beyond me. My first film 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne' did wonders at the box office. Then 'Chocolate' was also quite popular, but it didn't have the same effect as the first one.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

We can't say whether a film will be a hit or flop. There's something which just clicks with people.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.