Box Office Revenue Quotes

I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.

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

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.

Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.

Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, 'What are you doing for the industry?' When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I'm not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.

The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

There was a time when I was called the wizard of the box-office.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.

The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

No star is bigger than the success of a film.

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.

Why do we have 'Transformers 5 or 6?' Because young kids will go and see it four or five times.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

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

We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.

You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

It's fine to do movies and say, 'We made big grosses,' but you've got to go back and ask, 'How much did it cost?' and 'Where do you make your profit?'