Jason Blum Quotes

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

Success of a film has got nothing to do with whether it's a remake or an original.

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.

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.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be associated with a film like this. If it were easy to know the pulse of the audience, then all movies would be blockbusters.

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.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

Frankly speaking, during the making of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety,' we never realised that the movie is going to be such a hit and that it will change our lives so much. There have been movies which have done really well at the box office, but rarely do we have movies where actors get so much love and adulation from their fans.

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

I was confident about the potential of 'Baaghi 2' when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

You have to acknowledge that films that have a strong concept and are easily marketed to people are the ones that stand the biggest chance of success.

If a father could have made his son a star, then Sunny Deol's son Karan Deol's first film 'Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas' wouldn't have been a flop.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

I would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can't be.