Joe Carnahan Quotes

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.

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.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

I've never made a film that lost money.

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

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

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.

At the end of the day, it's a business; people want to make money. That's the intention with every film. It happens for some movies. For others, it doesn't.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

Movies are an expensive business.

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?

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.

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.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

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.

People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.

The movie business is a big gamble.

We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.