Successful Films Quotes

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

Qurbani' happened at a time when all kinds of special films were happening to my career - 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram,' 'Shalimar,' 'Abdullah.'

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I've a track record of successful comedy films spread over more than a decade.

I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.

If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.

Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have a success and do what you say you're going to do in a contract and pay out that money, we had a lot more established actors come to us and say they want to work with us.

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Films need a good direction, strong scripts, and hardworking actors. 'Wazir' has all of these.

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

I've worked with the likes of Ram Gopal Varma in 'Rakhta Charitra' and Mani Ratman in 'Raavan' - both these films released in Hindi as well. You need to have something substantial to make a mark in Bollywood and these movies gave me strong characters.

I have been lucky to have got big offers like 'Kalyug,' 'Traffic Signal' or 'Dhol.'

I always respect Dil Raju garu.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

Stardom can be obtained only after surviving and giving good films for almost 20 years.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.

For me, it all started with 'Phoonk' around 2008 and then I landed a couple of more films and then came 'Makkhi.'

Personally, the films I love include 'Black Friday,' 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai,' 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka,' and 'Zindagi Na Milege Dobara' because they work at the box office and are complete packages.