Movie Revenue Quotes

Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

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.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.

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

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

I win my awards at the box office.

I've never made a film that lost money.

Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit.

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

TMOK' is a family film, and everyone would like to watch the film. I'll be very happy even if I get 50 to 65 per cent of the box-office opening that 'Ra.One' gets.

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

You get paid what you deserve, according to the money that your movie generates. I get much more than a lot of male directors and I also get less than some. But I get paid what I deserve and what I ask for.

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.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

Horror movies make a lot of money in India.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.