Jonathan Levine Quotes

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

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

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.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

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

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

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

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

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

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.

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.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.