Shia LaBeouf Quotes

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

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

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

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.

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.

I cannot put pressure on myself that I have delivered a Rs 100 crore film and now I have to give it again or it will not be successful. Films that earn Rs 50 crore or Rs 60 crore are successful, too.

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

They're making so few movies that you really just have to make it. It's going to be the only way you end up getting work. I don't believe anyone's going to really go out on a limb and just throw millions of dollars on someone that's not been proven. They're going to have to show somebody something at some point.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

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.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.