Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office. — Yahoo Serious
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. — Peter Jackson
Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. — Robert Redford
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. — Charlie Chaplin
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. — Richard Linklater
The only thing that matters is the theater! — Lily Rabe
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. — Robert Brustein
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. — Jean-Luc Godard
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. — Uwe Boll
People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical. — David Fincher
Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. — Sean Penn
Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well. — Sam Mendes
Short Box Office Quotes
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara
The success of the film is down to the crew. — Dougray Scott
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. — Martin Scorsese
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. — Steven Spielberg
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood. — Don Bluth
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is. — Matthew Vaughn
Movies are a big part of our Indian culture. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Western films don't do very well in India. — Baz Luhrmann
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. — Roman Polanski
Box Office Image Quotes
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
Movie Sales Quotes
When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale? — Chris Campbell
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. — Andrzej Wajda
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. — Allen West
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
I think they've finally realized that women go to see movies as much as men do. Ticket sales are coming from them as well, so why not appeal to them? I think they're finding a way. — Margot Robbie
I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales. — George Ratliff
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will. — Robert Altman
Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked. — Chris Rock
You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies. — John Lasseter
Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie. — James Berardinelli
100 Movie Quotes
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. — Harrison Ford
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. — George Lucas
Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download. — Max Tegmark
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success. — Todd McFarlane
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of Tokyo occurred before the atom bombs.. 100,000 civilians died in one night from American bombs.. 500,000 altogether over several days say some. — Robert McNamara
What we got here is a failure to communicate. — Paul Newman
You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause! — George S. Kaufman
Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world. — Damon Lindelof
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! — William Goldman
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing. — Vin Diesel
Box Office Success Quotes
I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet. — Michael Fassbender
Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of. — Sylvia Kristel
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. — Tim Ferriss
I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters. — John Lasseter
I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success. — Rani Mukerji
Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process. — Kevin Spacey
When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office. — Milos Forman
I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy. — James Ivory
Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received. — Aamir Khan
As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says. — Hrithik Roshan
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). — Faith Popcorn
It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. — Chuck Klosterman
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. — Adlai Stevenson
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. — Adlai E. Stevenson
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. — Charles Rangel
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. — Tim Robbins
But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire. — Avi Arad
Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office. — Mae West
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor. — Taylor Kitsch
To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response. — Aamir Khan
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. — Jessica Chastain
it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office. — Greta Garbo
Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. — Jackie Chan
I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit. — Roger Corman
As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way. — Rosie Perez
Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely. — Dirk Benedict
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. — Laura Dern
I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me. — Sayings
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going. — Denzel Washington
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in. — Susie Bright
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office. — Vincent D'Onofrio
Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does. — Michael Nesmith
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. — John Jay Hooker
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. — Laura Dern
Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s. — Andrea Tantaros
I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either. — George Clooney
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. — Neil LaBute
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office. — Jason Patric
My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw. — Neve Campbell
I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw. — Neve Campbell
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison — Laura Hillenbrand
Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot. — Matthew Lillard
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office. — Mary Hart
So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. — Charlize Theron
You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way. — Johnny Depp
I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash. — Bill Forsyth
I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too. — Hugo Weaving
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. — Marlee Matlin
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. — Kareena Kapoor
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