Jason Blum Quotes

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.

I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

People often accuse me of being serious. Have I played serious roles in 'Honeymoon Travels' and 'Sankat City?' It is just that after the films were made, producers did not have money to bombard it all over the place.

Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around.

Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.