Sunny Deol Quotes

'Radio' was made at a budget of Rs 6 crore. Thankfully, the money invested in making the film was recovered through music.

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.

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

We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.

It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

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

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

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?

My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars.

The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.

It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'

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

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

I've never made a film that lost money.

Disney had made such a great deal of money on Snow White that the banks gave him the go-ahead on the next three films. But he was heavily dependent on the foreign market.

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

Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

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.

There is no money in films, till the time you make it to a certain bracket.

'Housefull' is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.