Rishi Kapoor Quotes

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.

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

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.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

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

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

There is no way of knowing if a film is going to be good.

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

My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.

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

I remember a few years ago, two of my films - Gulzar Saab's 'Hu tu tu' and Shakeel Noorani's 'Bade Dilwala' - were released simultaneously. 'Bade Dilwala' suffered although it was a good film.

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.

Each time when my films get released, people always compare it with my debut film 'Parutthiveeran' and comment that nothing comes near that flick.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

Who would want to do a bad film? It's just that not all films work in my favour, and I'm fine with it.

You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success.

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

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.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.