Box Office Quotes - Page 5

• People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

  Andrew Scott

  Jobs, Thinking, Careers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.

  Rob Urbinati

  Jobs, Home, Long

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)

  Laura Mullen

  Stars, War, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Yeah, I look at the box office as an indication as how many lives that you've touched, so my hope is touch as many lives as possible.

  DeVon Franklin

  Office, Looks, Yeah

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.

  Kevin Spacey

  School, Weekend, Office

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• it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Art, Office

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• I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

  Gillian Jacobs

  People, Office, Female

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• I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

  Rani Mukerji

  Thinking, Office, People

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• You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

  Ice Cube

  People, Office, Matter

  "AGENT ORANGE: Talking to Ice Cube, Eve, and Cedric the Entertainer about BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 6, 2004.

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• People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

  Joel Siegel

  Night, Office, Film

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• Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box office films. Other people wanting to be more sensitive to you want to talk about the ones that maybe didn't make a lot of money, but they think you might have a special feeling about. And then other people sometimes want to help you by suggesting that you should have done this or that in the movie, that that would have helped you a great deal in whatever capacity.

  Walter Hill

  Thinking, Should Have, Office

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Character, Thinking, Order

  "Josh Hutcherson Talks DETENTION and Whether He Thinks Gary Ross Will Return for CATCHING FIRE". Interview, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

  John Lasseter

  Home, Character, Weekend

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Ideas, Yesterday

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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• Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Twilight, Thinking, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Office, Trying

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• France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.

  Michel Ocelot

  Country, Office, Hollywood

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.

  Fred Thompson

  Morning, Office, Watches

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• Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Bricks, Income

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• When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Competition, Degenerates

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

  Danny Glover

  Monday, Morning, White

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Office, Actors, Want

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