Guillermo del Toro Quotes

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you going to do a sequel to 'The Guest' or 'You're Next?' - those movies weren't financially viable, so even though there are a lot of fans of it, it'd be a pretty small market we'd be appealing to. It's got to be a big hit for you to really justify that.

I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

I cannot put pressure on myself that I have delivered a Rs 100 crore film and now I have to give it again or it will not be successful. Films that earn Rs 50 crore or Rs 60 crore are successful, too.

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.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

Basically, I always thought that if I had a movie that did well enough and warranted having a sequel, I would seriously entertain it because that's a huge blessing when that happens in your career.

'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.

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.

Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.