Jon Feltheimer Quotes

Germany is the country where action films perform the worst. It's the worst market in the world for these kind of movies.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

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

What eventually counts is whether your film was successful at the box-office or not, or more so if the film has made its money, and 'Race 3' did that.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

The audience in Kerala have been giving a good response to my films, including 'Paiyaa' and 'Siruthai.'

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'

I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

Once I am done with the film, I don't worry about how many centres the film has released, what are the BO records, etc. As I have no knowledge of such things, feeling the pressure doesn't arise.

I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.

There have been things over the years that didn't work. 'Body Of Lies,' directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.'

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

Film is not just about the art form but also how it fares at the box office.

When you tell a film financier that you want to do a Shakespeare film, their face drops. Shakespeare films don't have a very wonderful history at the box office.