Jason Blum Quotes

Success of a film is not only based on the film being good or bad. A lot of other factors are involved as well.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

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

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

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.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

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

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.