“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.” IfsWantFeelsI CanFilmFightingChanceAudienceMinesThousandDramaticBuyingTicketsOne Chance Author:Woody Allen
“The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.” ShouldWritingStoriesHappensFightingLevelsNovelAudienceBenefitsAllowingShort StoryDragMonetary Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan
“Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.” PeopleFilmFightingHoursAudienceTerribleJokesOld PeoplePromotionHong KongAmerican FamilyRush Hour Author:Jackie Chan
“I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.” TryingFightingAudienceTasteSceneMembersAnnoyingSequencePumps Author:Steven Soderbergh
“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
“If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well.” IfsKnowsMindWellsDoeStatesFightingStuffAudienceEasierDialogueConfusedState Of MindFrustratedEasier Times Author:David Cronenberg
“There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.” PeopleShouldWellsHas BeensEnoughTogetherFightingAudienceRecordsObjectsCornersRingsStoppingRefereeMismatch Author:Ferdie Pacheco
“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
“I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.” ThinkingFeelsFightingAudienceDogTestsScreening Author:Brian Helgeland
“On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.” ThinkingWantSoulBigsFightingAudienceStageEntertainmentScreensSettingSettingsPierceBig ScreenHecklers Author:Mike Tyson