They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.
I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
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.
It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
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.
Today it's not culture; it's box office.