“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.” ThinkingWayIdeasSelfCharacterFilmCertainDealsAudienceGreaterMembersAskingDistanceServingQuestioningDiscourseArenaObjectivityWrong WaySelf ServingProvoked Author:Colin Farrell
“I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a movie, that you had an emotional reaction. In order to do that, I felt that I had to really keep myself emotionally raw while working on the film. I had to feel myself crying, so the audience could be moved, too.” FeelsWantedFilmOrderFeltAudienceCryEmotionalMovedReactionsBiographiesEmotional Reactions Author:Tamra Davis
“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
“But if you stagnate, the growth is over. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like Partner, Singh is Kinng gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.” IfsNeedsDoneFilmGrowthAudienceComedyGreaterGainsWidePartnersRecognitionGambleSingh Author:Katrina Kaif
“Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.” PlayFilmAudienceStruggleInternetInternationalDvds Author:Katori Hall
“A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.” DifferentFilmActingAudienceVicesReactionsVice Versa Author:Richard McCabe
“When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.” TwoHelpingFilmFoundAbilityAudienceMinesConcernWinnerFilmmakerOscarsAcclaim Author:Alexander Payne
“What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the characters, try to imagine myself in that world rather than imagining it as a film I'm watching onscreen. Sometimes, that means I'm discovering things the way the audience will, with character and story.” WorldWayWritingTryingMeanSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmAudienceImagineDiscoveringDiscovering Things Author:Christopher Nolan
“I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.” IfsGivingFilmImaginationForgetResultsAudienceFiveMinutesPerspectiveInstinctFlatsFive MinutesFascinationNarratorsActivate Author:Werner Herzog
“I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.” PeopleGivingIdeasStoriesAgeFilmChanceAudienceScreensLove StoryHopefully Author:Shirley MacLaine
“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.” WorldWantTryingFirstsKindCharacterHandsFilmDesireThreeProcessNaturalSpaceAudiencePerspectiveWalkingIllusionStorytellingFilmmakingExtensionsAlways TryingBelievable Author:Rob Minkoff
“Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.” WantBigsFilmWinningWaitingAudienceNiceReadyRight NowOne DayCriticsAwardsBeing NiceBig Movie Author:Brett Ratner
“Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.” KindFilmAudienceDoors Author:Steven Spielberg
“I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.” ShowsFilmGamesSoundAudienceMelodySignatures Author:David Raiklen
“There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindFeelingsFilmFunProcessWalksAudienceFeel GoodRevelationsTranslateGood Feeling Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.” PeopleThinkingDifferentKidsFilmAudienceStudiosTechniqueStorytellingGenreTragicAnimationSpectrumOlder PeopleDifferent Genres Author:Bill Plympton
“There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and wouldn't get the opportunity to see. It's exciting. That's where our whole thought process originated from.” WantFirstsWholeFilmOpportunityProcessAbilityCompanyAudienceExcitingThought Process Author:Courtney Solomon
“Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.” WantKindBigsFilmAudienceMassAppealsFilmmakerExceptionMentalityMainstream Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the director and just listen to him or her talk about the film - what they're trying to say, what they want the audience to understand or believe, and a thousand other similar questions. The director has most likely been living with the film for years before a composer is attached, and so the director's inclinations, desires, and understanding of the film are paramount.” WantWritingTryingYearsBelieveFilmDesireUnderstandingAudienceThousandDirectorsNotesComposerInclinationSessionJust ListenParamount Author:John Keltonic
“The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.” FactsFilmAudienceMovedExcitedFlattering Author:Natalie Portman
“If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.” IfsHappensAbleFilmDifficultAudienceCryEmotionalPortionsGet RealScreeningClockwork Author:Michael Pitt
“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
“When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.” PeopleThinkingWantKindArtBigsRealityFilmMillionsAudienceStyleJudgingDirectorsHarderCriticsPopsGenreExecutionPretentiousBig MovieArt FilmsNot Judging Author:Brett Ratner
“I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.” PeopleGivingFilmAsksSidesDarkAudienceProudReflectionTheaterResponseCommunicateAppealsCommunionPreferenceThrilling Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeStillsMatterCharacterFactsFilmAbilityWatchesAudienceTypeDirectorsStorytellingDespiteAliensMasteryAnother World Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.” FilmWatchesWorryAudienceFocusGroupsCardsFocus Groups Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.” KindShowsWould BeFilmReadingAudienceSeeingJudgingConcertsConformOrchestraSymphonySymphony Orchestras Author:Laurie Anderson
“With a feature film you're dealing with so much more money and you've got to be very aware of the fact that you're really working with an audience. You've got to have a relationship with the audience. Play with them and show them things you want them to see.” WantPlayFactsShowsFilmAudienceFeaturesMore Money Author:Taika Waititi
“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” FirstsWholeFilmActorsGamesHurtAnimalBoysPrinciplesBreakAudienceDogIllusionIronicProvocationFunny Game Author:Michael Haneke
“Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksLittlesRealBigsFilmActorsBitsViewsAudienceHonestHonestyTvsMembersLittle BitTheaterBig Movie Author:Elisabeth Moss
“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
“I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.” PeopleFactsFilmCitiesAudienceAfrican AmericanInner City Author:Wes Craven
“The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.” PeopleIfsWellsStillsStoriesFilmRealizingAudienceSeeingTheaterBunchRemarkableScreamCampfire Author:Wes Craven
“It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.” IfsThinkingWantMayHardFilmPoliticalBeliefGivenAudienceMessages Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.” FeelsMeanStillsFilmGamesAudienceIndustryLuckyStudiosFeaturesMassiveMore MoneyInfancy Author:Kevin Conroy
“One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" [movie], the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.” PeopleFirstsFilmMovingProcessAudienceGoneOne ThingCrazyStreetsMembersMoving ForwardUpliftingEnjoyedPirate Author:Johnny Depp
“I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.” WayYearsMadeStillsFilmFunWatchesAudienceLaughingImagineTheaterImagine ThatAmusing Author:Sydney Pollack
“I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.” WayHardFilmWatchesAudienceMembersYeahFantasticImpressive Author:Chris Hemsworth
“I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.” ThinkingFilmPoliticalCultureAsksAudienceAcceptanceDegreesToleranceFortunateBad ThingsSpectrumLess FortunatePolitical SpectrumThose Less Fortunate Author:Hugh Bonneville
“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
“When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.” MightFilmWatchesAudience Author:Nandita Das
“If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.” IfsMeanMadeMatterStoriesCareFilmAttentionMillionsAudienceRedDollarsScreensPay AttentionSoftwareWhat MattersMillion DollarsUnfoldingTriangles Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.” GivingYearsMatterFeelingsMightFilmGivenOpinionAudienceLessonsNo Matter WhatI've Learned Author:Delroy Lindo
“Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.” IfsGivingPlayProblemFilmActorsSoundSidesRoomsPowerfulAudienceToo MuchHugeConversationGive MeAddEditingToolbox Author:Dave McKean
“I want to tell stories which require something of an audience, by way of thought, argument, emotion, because I'm more often in an audience than I am a maker of films, and that's the kind of movie I want to see.” WayWantKindStoriesFilmEmotionAudienceArgumentMakers Author:Anthony Minghella
“I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantMeanRealFilmAudienceHollywoodIndependentVariousStudiosTrendsReal WorldTruthfulEccentricInterferenceDemographicsIndependent FilmCalculatingPrerogativeHollywood Studios Author:Mike Leigh
“I want to use film to tell stories that need to be told to spark discussions that will lead to change. I really want to see a change in the mindset of youth, how they see themselves and how they value life. Young audiences will be able to see themselves in this film and older audiences will gain an understanding of what their kids are dealing with on a daily basis. Kids discuss what they see on TV, social media, film so I want to create content that they will discuss and will change the way they think.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsStoriesUseKidsAbleFilmYoungValuesSocialUnderstandingAudienceMediaYouthTvsGainsBasesSocial MediaMindsetDiscussionSparks Author:Jamie Hector
“Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.” FilmOpportunityEnergyAudienceTalentMakersVehicleExposureFestivalsFilm Festivals Author:Jamie Hector
“As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.” WantMindFilmAudienceFilmmaker Author:Chika Anadu