“There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.” WantStillsViewsAudienceCinema Author:Michael Winterbottom
“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.” ThinkingStatesCharacterAbleMistakeAudiencePositionPeriodsSmartGoldenCinemaClassicMisconception Author:Asghar Farhadi
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.” HumansKindStillsStatesMomentsFacesLostAudienceAbsolutesOneselfFleshCinemaThat MomentEcstasyHuman FacesGarbo Author:Greta Garbo
“It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them.” SeemsFilmEmotionAudiencePositionEmpathyCinemaManipulationDominantSubjective Author:Peter Greenaway
“I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.” ThinkingWorldWayWantTryingPlayUseSidesViewsAudienceSuccessfulParticularNormalCinema Author:Terry Gilliam
“The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.” MadeAudienceEasierBuiltOriginalsStudiosLandscapeCinemaAdaptationRemakes Author:Charlie Hunnam
“The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” WantLittlesArtAudienceBloodStageDramaEntertainmentFleshCinemaPredictionsFadsFlesh And BloodPredicting The Future Author:Charlie Chaplin
“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
“The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.” ThinkingWellsTwoIdeasPlayLife IsFightingEvilRaceAudienceStruggleMoralityDramaStrikesSensualTriumphCinemaBoxingTwo ThingsInsecurityAncestorPrimalGood Against EvilLife Is A Struggle Author:Sylvester Stallone
“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
“For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.” KnowsTryingLightAbleFilmAudienceDown AndFinishedScreensCinema Author:Christopher Nolan
“Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.” ArtFilmOpportunityAudienceTelevisionCinemaCommodityLiteracyDownturn Author:Roger Ebert
“The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.” FactsBigsFilmSpiritualLostAudienceIndustryAspectHollywoodMarketingEducationalCinemaSixtyPresent TimeInformative Author:Brian Cox
“When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.” BigsFilmAudienceCinemaFedsSpoons Author:Michael Fassbender
“I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.” IfsShouldBelieveLittlesFilmI BelieveBitsAudienceCrazyConversationMembersLittle BitShould HaveLike MeCinema Author:Michael Fassbender
“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.” ThinkingWorldArtWantedFilmFormFeltWatchesAudienceWonderfulComputerUnderstoodStudiosMediumsAround The WorldCinemaEntertainingAnimationGood MovieReally Good MovieComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“I'm at peace with myself. My film just may please audiences. At any rate, it's already a great prize to be part of just 16 films among all of the world cinema out there. I'm tranquil and satisfied.” WorldMayFilmAudiencePleaseRateSatisfiedCinemaPrizeTranquil Author:Michel Ocelot
“In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.” KnowsWayMadeFilmCommunityDifferencesAudienceKnow HowInternationalCommunicateChinesePropagandaCinemaHong Kong Author:Wong Kar-wai
“I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.” ThinkingDifferentPowerfulAudienceRiskAdvantageCinemaFixedAesthetics Author:Yann Martel
“I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.” PeopleWayTryingIdeasStoriesRolesAudienceEmotionalCinemaPerforming Author:Joe Wright