Film Outcome Quotes

Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.

It's better to do a film that works.

When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

Every film has its destiny.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

The movie 'Scandal Makers' did so much better than I had thought. During that phase of my career, the people around me warned me that whatever goes up could always come back down.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

I have this new theory about films. It's almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It's that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

I got much acclaim with 'Traffic Signal' but 'Superstar' didn't do well.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me.

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.