Dangerous Quote by Manoj Bajpayee

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance…

— Curtis Hanson

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or…

— Grant Heslov

From a financial perspective, you have to think about what the film will generate in revenue so you can set a budget against it.

— Kevin Feige

At the end of the day, there is a lot of money that gets put into films.

— Diana Penty

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a…

— Quentin Tarantino

Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons…

— Brendan Benson

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

— Woody Allen

If I were to ever make a lot of money, I will invest in films.

— Johnny Lever

I don't think about how much business my films will make.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

— Imtiaz Ali