Movie Outcome Quotes

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

'Jump Street,' I knew we had a great time. It didn't matter, didn't know if it was going to do well.

There's plenty of examples of films where they're greenlit to move forward, and they want to get X actor. And they don't get X actor, so they go with Y, and it doesn't turn out to be as good of a movie as it should have been.

Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

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

Well, I would want 'Race 3' to change the course of my career, but whether that will happen is something which we will know only when the film releases.

I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be associated with a film like this. If it were easy to know the pulse of the audience, then all movies would be blockbusters.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

I am glad I tried something different with 'A Flying Jatt'. I will be okay even if I failed with this film.

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

Some films will work, some won't.

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.

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.

I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.

Every film has its destiny.

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

On an independent film you're lucky if you get one, but ostensibly the job is the same. There's very little difference, apart from the knowledge that there's a captive audience at the end of it - which you can't always guarantee with a movie.

I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.