John Schneider Quotes

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

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.

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.

If 'American Beauty' came out today, it wouldn't make nearly as much money.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

To make money, it may be important to win the Academy Award, for it might mean another ten million dollars at the box office.

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

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost 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.

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.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

If I want to be a leading man in a film, box office numbers count because producers have invested money. I see no wrong in that process.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

I want my films to make money first. Awards and all can come later.

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.