Don Cheadle Quotes

I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'

Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

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?

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

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.

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

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've never made a film that lost money.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

Your film really needs to call audiences to theatres.

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

I do believe that there are some films that cannot be made without stars.

I believe in one thing, and that is content, because if your content is strong, the film will surely be hit at the box office.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

You can make films, and often, they get released on four screens in the U.K. Although it's been interesting and good for you, if no one's seen it, what's the point?

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.

Frankly speaking, during the making of 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety,' we never realised that the movie is going to be such a hit and that it will change our lives so much. There have been movies which have done really well at the box office, but rarely do we have movies where actors get so much love and adulation from their fans.

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

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

You need stars to create the buzz and bring audiences to the cinemas.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.