John Lee Hancock Quotes

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

A filmmaker is in a very vulnerable position when their films are releasing.

I remember a few years ago, two of my films - Gulzar Saab's 'Hu tu tu' and Shakeel Noorani's 'Bade Dilwala' - were released simultaneously. 'Bade Dilwala' suffered although it was a good film.

My first film, 'Leader,' created a lot of political drama. Its release was pushed back twice.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

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.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

For me, I was entirely focused on 'Episode VIII' and having this experience, and now I'm just thinking of putting the movie out there and seeing how audiences respond to it.

My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

Success of a film has got nothing to do with whether it's a remake or an original.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

Stars have no say in the release of a film. There are too many factors involved.

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

I do not keep a track of numbers as such, but I am definitely aware of how a film of mine is doing when it is playing in theatres. More than the numbers, it is important to know how the audience is reacting to the film.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

Really bad reviews can hurt pretty much any movie. They say that some films are review-proof, but I think that's probably big high-concept movies, comedies, and so on. But, on the whole, if a film gets dreadful reviews, it will affect its business.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

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.