Jackie Chan Quotes

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it made money.

My films do very well on home video.

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.

I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

We made 'Housefull 4' because 1, 2 and 3 were loved by the audience.

Sometimes, big budget movies with big stars also flop, and sometimes small films manage to win the heart of audiences. Ultimately, it is the viewer who is the king and it depends on the liking of the audiences.

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well, then it will see its share of success.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

The audience in Kerala have been giving a good response to my films, including 'Paiyaa' and 'Siruthai.'

You never know what clicks at the box office. It's very unpredictable.

We can't say whether a film will be a hit or flop. There's something which just clicks with people.

Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.

What I'm realizing as I get older is that a movie's mainstream success is just as unpredictable as a movie's cult success. Plenty of movies that are truly odd and deserve cults, don't have cults. It's just as much of a crapshoot to be a cult hit as it is to be a mainstream success. Isn't that weird?

That's an actor's life. I thought Meet Joe Black was gonna be one of the big changes for me, and it was gonna be a runaway hit - and it wasn't. And with Mr. Mom, I said, "There's just no way." And it turned out to be a huge hit.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.

Making a film on Mary Kom means that people should be watching it across the globe; it should be that level.

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.

Aradhana' was a very big hit while 'Avishkaar' is a cult film.