Top 1200 Box Office Quotes & Sayings

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.

Unhappy marriages are big box office.

While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of American culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. Many years ago, it would have been vulgar to print box - office grosses in the paper. Now The New York Times does it, and it's the big story for people interested in arts and entertainment on Monday. Which is why emphasis has shifted away from filmmakers and fallen on movie stars and business people.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

I have this nook at Milk Bar that's my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg's cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal.

I'm not chasing independence, I'm chasing Walt Disney. I'm looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

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

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

'Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

Give a cold shoulder to cold callers. Never invest in anything based on a phone call from someone you don't know or whose office is a post office box.

You never know what clicks at the box office. It's very unpredictable.

The box office is a black money laundry shop. No business is straight.

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

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

The biggest advantage of OTT is that it is not confined to the box office.

The box office in an arthouse film is always going to be small. We have to face this and overcome this.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

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.

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

The box office isn't something I consider. If I do, I can't really work.

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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Every movie I do, regardless of how they fare at the box office, excites me.

Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.

I win my awards at the box office.

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

There was a time when I was called the wizard of the box-office.

Women drive box office.

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Box office success is pertinent but the story has to have a life beyond the two hours.

I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

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.

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.

I've never been driven by box office.

Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

I don't really think about the box office, but I want my films to do well.

Everyone thinks that Fight Club is a very important and successful film, but it was a massive box-office failure. Massive. It was a big flop by any commercial-release standard. And it's been a huge hit on DVD. Everything that movie has become has been on DVD. So you can't stake your sense of creative success on this whole box-office-performance matrix, because if you do, you're going to be disappointed most of the time.

I don't think a film has ever worked at the box office because of a star.

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

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

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

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

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

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.