Varun Dhawan Quotes

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.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

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 do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Give the public what it wants.

I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be associated with a film like this. If it were easy to know the pulse of the audience, then all movies would be blockbusters.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

Each film has its own fate, and you can't go through personal emotions based on the highs and lows of a film.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

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