Box Office Profits Quotes

They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

It's better to do a film that works.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

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

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

There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.

'Milk' had to be a financial success, following the success of 'Brokeback Mountain.' It had to make money so studios would develop other LGBT projects.

I'd like to enter in and out of that big budget world, rather than staying in it. It's not the case that the bigger the film, the better it is.

At the end of it, box office result matters. And the weird thing is that we do not know the formula of that.

In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.

With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea is more likely to have financial success. But if you go down that path too far, you become creatively bankrupt because you're just trying to repeat yourself.