Christine Vachon Quotes

I've never made a film that lost money.

Box office success definitely matters. I will be lying if say it does not matter.

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

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

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

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Well, it's so cheesy to say but you can't find a comedy director who makes movies for critics. When a movie does $580 million worldwide, I'm not saying that proves anything except people were enjoying the experience.

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.

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

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

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.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

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.

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

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

Ideally, I want my films to work because I want the people who have invested their money to get back their investment and make profits too.

It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

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.

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

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.

I am choosing films only to entertain people, but at the same time, if someone is putting their money into my films, I want that person to make money.