Max Landis Quotes

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

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

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

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.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

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

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

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

I would really want all my films to make money. But this weekend calculation is the most dangerous thing because, based on the amount collected in the first weekend, they start declaring the film a hit or a flop. It can't be.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

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

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

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

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

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.

When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'