Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

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 don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

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'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

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.

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.

I want every movie to have a big audience. I'm always hopeful that it's going to be discovered, and audiences are fantastic that way because every once in a while they surprise you. I didn't think 'Beautiful Mind' was going to be that kind of global success.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

'Masti' did so well. It was unexpected and clicked very well with masses.

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?

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

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 been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

If I knew what makes a movie catch on then I'd make hit after hit.

'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world.