Elizabeth Banks Quotes

Women drive box office.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

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

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

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

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

You never know what clicks at the box office. It's very unpredictable.

When I saw 'Shola Aur Shabnam' and 'Aankhen,' I did not anticipate that they would become such hits. They looked like B-plus projects.

At the end of it, box office result matters. And the weird thing is that we do not know the formula of that.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

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.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.