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“I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.”

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Author:George Clooney

“Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.”

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Author:Andrea Tantaros

“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.”

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Author:Eve Hewson

“A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one's flank. The mark of a box-office king?”

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Author:David Edelstein

“I will tell you that we're all human beings, and we all care about what people think of us. But in general, their outlook is, "We're not looking at opening night numbers. We're not looking at opening night box office. We want this to be part of the reason you come to our service."”

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Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“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.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.”

“Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

“Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.”

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Author:Rob Paulsen

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

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Author:Andrew Scott

“When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

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

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Author:Rob Urbinati

“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.)”

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Author:Laura Mullen

“And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.”

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Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“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.”

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Author:DeVon Franklin

“Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.”

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Author:Roland Emmerich

“You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.”

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Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.”

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Author:Hrithik Roshan

“Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.”

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Author:Jessica Chastain

“I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.”

“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.”

“It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.”

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Author:Julie Benz

“Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.”

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Author:Aamir Khan

“To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.”

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Author:Aamir Khan

“When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.”

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Author:Gayle King

“I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.”

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Author:Taylor Kitsch

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

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Author:Diane Kruger

“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.”

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Author:Diane Kruger

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”

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Author:George Lucas

“Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.”

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Author:Marlee Matlin

“I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.”

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Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.”

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Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.”

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Author:Tim Robbins

“So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.”

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Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.”

“So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.”

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Author:Charlize Theron

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