Christopher Walken Quotes

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

You can't bank on the outcome.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

You never know how things will work out.

You never know what the future might hold.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

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

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.