Box Office Flop Quotes

When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

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

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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

Yeah, a few of the films I made were so bad they didn't get released - they escaped.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

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

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

The studio should not have released this film.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

After about nine blockbusters, I had forgotten how to deal with a failure when 'Jaan-Emaan' released. I was shaken.

When a film doesn't do well, people start doubting you as an actor.