Dean Devlin Quotes

Since 'Qismat' did well independently, it was embraced by Bollywood.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.

If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.

There are very few movies that become real phenomenons the way 'Twilight' or 'The Hunger Games' did.

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

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a hit.

The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.

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.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

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 didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

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.

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.

You don't tell a player you can't monitor your investments for a month. There's no way you're going to have a billion-dollar investment and never fail to monitor it for a period of time.

I was confident about the potential of 'Baaghi 2' when I greenlit it, but the final product has blown me away.

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

When it's the same team that's created magic at the box office in the past, you know you are in safe hands.

With the success of 'Yevade Subramanyam' and 'Bhale Magadivoy,' the audience's faith in me has increased, which is a good sign.