Jason Blum Quotes

In 2007, 'Diary of the Dead' all of a sudden made money. I was blindsided by that.

'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

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

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

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

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.

I've never made a film that lost money.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

I've never crossed over to be a big star. I'd like to be in a big $100 million movie, though. 'Cause I was in an 'Austin Powers,' I think I had two lines, and every once in a while, I get a check, a really nice check, for that movie.

With 'The Replacements,' it was insane. I'd never done a movie that opened up and made, like, seven million dollars. I'd never been part of, like, a four-day press junket for a movie that was international and domestic.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.