Jeff Nichols Quotes

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

I've never made a film that lost money.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

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

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

With features, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on production and marketing, so everybody's panicked because you literally have an opening weekend to succeed.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

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.

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

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

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?

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

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

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.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

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.

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

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

The movie business is a big gamble.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.