Film Revenue Quotes

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

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

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

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.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.

'Radio' was made at a budget of Rs 6 crore. Thankfully, the money invested in making the film was recovered through music.

I want to my films to make Rs 200 crore and Rs 300 crore also, but I have to be reasonable.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

It's arguable whether a hit song is gonna add to the business a film does. There are plenty of films that didn't do any business and sold a million albums.

When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think entertainment tax is too steep.

Of course, an Oscar nomination would have added considerably to the film's business abroad. But it has already made nearly Rs 150 crore. It has done stupendous business overseas. We did a business of Rs 80 crore when we took 'Devdas' to Cannes.

I'm trying to develop an approach to putting out a movie in wide release that makes some kind of economic sense for the filmmakers and the people that have a participation in the movie.

I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.

I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.

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.

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

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.

I go into movies I hate, and that movie will make $500 million.