Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

The flop that hit me was 'Tevar.' It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn't ready to accept that 'Tevar' didn't do well.

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

I feel bad when my film flops.

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.

'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

Nobody is going to keep giving me chances even after two-three of my films don't do well.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

Every movie I touched bombed.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.