Stephen Chow Quotes

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Box office success definitely matters. I will be lying if say it does not matter.

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.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

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.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

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

I want all my films to do well.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

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

You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

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

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.