“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.” PeopleMayCharacterStoriesSeemsAbleActionInterestingAudiencePersonalityTheatreRingsAnimationInteresting ThingsUnreal Author:Walt Disney
“As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.” PlayCharacterActionAudienceHeroMain Characters Author:Dolph Lundgren
“During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.” YearsLongFeelingsActionProcessCitiesAudienceWifeNew YorkDirectorsHusbandOrganizationMalesIncomeCorporateGenerousBoardsExecutivesNew York CityChaptersWorkplaceWorkshopsAffirmative ActionAffirmativeBoard Of DirectorsAnother WomanHead Start Author:Warren Farrell
“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.” WantHumansBodyActionHuman BeingsAudienceTreePlanetsFlowerCreaturesBehaviorMiracleDanceEverydayWaveDancerPhenomenonExoticModern Dance Author:Martha Graham
“I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.” MatterPlayCharacterAbleActionTurnsAudienceEgoLosing Author:Neil Simon
“Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.” WantFeelsArtEndsStoriesActionActingAudienceParticularDramaSceneShotsThe End Of The DayAction Movie Author:Donnie Yen
“When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.” LooksSometimesActionActorsForgetAudienceType Author:Donnie Yen
“I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.” HardActionFilmAudienceTouchingAnimatedAction FilmsAnimated Movies Author:Steve Martin
“I love adventure movies, I just love action adventure films. It's pure cinema and you go in and you're lost to it. To me, it's that challenge - I want to give an audience that ride, that entertainment.” WantGivingActionFilmLostChallengesAudienceAdventurePureEntertainmentCinemaLove Adventure Author:Tom Cruise
“There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.” KnowsFeelsHas BeensPlayActionLanguageAudiencePlayerStageSpeechOur TimePhenomenonFrighteningIncapableSymptomsRelianceExperimentationFrightIncapacityStage Fright Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence.” PeopleGivingFeelsKindLittlesCharacterEyeActionLeftAudiencePiecesFatePersonalityCreaturesTasksMereInsightAccidentsCharacteristicsLatterLogicalCoincidence Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.” GivingCharacterSeemsActionFilmViewsNumbersSituationAudienceDirectorsTheaterPoint Of ViewObjectivesObservationCinemaIntimateAngleViewersSubjectiveSpectatorsParticipantsViewpointsIdentificationMovie Director Author:Ed Murray
“You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.” IfsLooksMayI CanCharacterStoriesAbleActionAudienceDesignCamerasStorytelling Author:Tom Cruise
“Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentActionAudienceHorrorDifferent WaysTensionFreak Author:Robert Rodriguez
“I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.” WantHandsKidsActionFilmBehindsCareersAudienceDramaIntenseTiedMidnightAdrenalineLove MakingAction FilmsBehind My BackHands Tied Author:Nicolas Cage
“Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.” PeopleWantTwoIdeasCharacterGovernmentActionCertainEnjoyHoursAudienceEmotionalJudgmentAspectFingersStorytellingHopefullyLayersInvasionDilemmaPretenseSubversion Author:Colin Farrell
“I don't ever want to go backwards, I quite like it. I like the freedom and I like the - What I set out to do was to make a big action-adventure movie that ticks all the boxes in terms of audience expectations and spectacle, and yet also make a very personal film and it feels like I've gotten away with that, I've managed that.” WantFeelsBigsActionFilmTermAudienceAdventureExpectationsBoxesBackwardsTick Author:Joe Wright
“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.” PeopleWantMatterCharacterStoriesHandsActionGoalWatchesAudienceLaughingSpecialEffectsCryComputerMemorableFilmmakerOver YouEntertainingAnimationMaking People LaughPuppetsGreat MusicGreat CharacterSpecial Effects Author:John Lasseter
“In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.” IfsWantI CanRealityActionFilmFacesGuyFightingActorsFunActingWatchesAudienceOne DayProveResearchJetOther GuysHmmmFun Movie Author:Jet Li
“We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingKindMatterStoriesActionFilmFictionTalkingAudienceOne ThingIntellectualScience FictionPropertyAccessAll KindsIntellectual PropertyArtifactsAction FilmsCgi Author:John Ridley
“Usually it's just material that resonates with me and I never know exactly what that's gonna be. And there's obviously a certain persuasion, if you will. It's dependent upon the fact that I'm known for certain genres. So, that influences my decision making as well. I mean I'd love to, for example, do an action thriller but there are a lot of very talented people doing that and so it would be very difficult for me to switch over to that genre. So, I do look for things that I know (will resonate with) my audience.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsLooksMeanFactsWould BeActionCertainDifficultDecisionKnownAudienceInfluenceExampleMaterialsGenreDependentDecision MakingPersuasionThrillers Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.” ActionFilmAudienceHorrorFishesBoxesSwimmingThrillersHorror FilmAction MovieAquariums Author:James Wan
“I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.” WayHelpingActionSpeakAudienceCamerasScreensI RealizedIntimateSeatsHelp MeDrivers Author:James Wan
“My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.” KnowsIdeasPlayAbleActionSpeakStepsAudienceMinesMajorsTownsOriginalsContributionPlotFormatOriginal IdeasWilderOur Town Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed