Ekta Kapoor Quotes

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

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.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

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.

I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

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.

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.

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.

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

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

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

When you are making a film, you do not know how it is going to be received by the audience. In fact, if you set out to make a film thinking that it will make 100 crores, it never ends up making that much money.

My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.