Sajid Nadiadwala Quotes

I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.

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

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.

India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it.

Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.

People forget that I am the granddaughter of a person named Nanabhai Bhatt, who had made more than 150 odd films. He was the person to introduce the double role phenomenon in Indian movies.

The idea of being associated with Bollywood prompted me to get into DVD distribution.

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

Huma has made her mark in the industry with films like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and 'Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana.' I am happy for what she has achieved today because we belong to a non-film background.

Most of the actresses I have worked with have started their career in South and then shifted to Bollywood.

I am interested in Bollywood. Everyone wants to do bigger and better work. I also want to do good work.

Bollywood gives you an immense reach. The stars have a huge fan base. The amount spent on promoting a film is incredible. To be part of such productions, in some way or the other, is a blessing for any artiste.