“Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.” KnowsHeartAudienceToo MuchFilmmakerVillain Author:Sharlto Copley
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?” AudienceAskingFactorsFilmmakerWowImpress Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura
“A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.” IfsMindMeanFilmInterestAudienceChangedIndustryConstantCastsActressesFilmmakerAgendas Author:Rani Mukerji
“As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.” WantAudienceFilmmaker Author:Gren Wells
“Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.” WantMadeWaterDecisionAudienceExpectationsFilmmakerCrave Author:Tom Hanks
“Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.” IfsTryingBelieveArtHappensAbleFilmFunAudienceHorrorBoundariesFilmmakerMake BelieveHorror Film Author:Tom Six
“A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."” PeopleIdeasTogetherDealsAudienceIssuesGenerationsDyingFiguresScreensFilmmakerBiasNew GenerationOld Ideas Author:Nate Parker
“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
“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
“As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.” WantMindFilmAudienceFilmmaker Author:Chika Anadu
“Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.” FilmAudienceFilmmaker Author:Michael Haneke
“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
“If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.” IfsAbleFilmDifferencesAudienceMagicIndependentCraftsFilmmakerDelicateInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.” ThinkingGivingFeelsBelieveFilmGivenI BelieveAudienceIndustryTasteEncouragementDon't BelieveFilmmakerFilmmakingFestivalsEmpoweredFilm Festivals Author:Tilda Swinton
“While it is increasingly possible for filmmakers to find an audience on their own (something that is particularly popular amongst documentary filmmakers) I'm still a believer in the "specialist". By this I mean, I back myself as a filmmaker, but I leave the marketing and distribution of my films to the experts.” MeanStillsFilmAudienceMarketingBelieverFilmmakerExpertsDocumentariesDistributionSpecialists Author:Leanne Pooley
“I think certain filmmakers going into Sundance or other big festivals should consider screening more for press and tastemakers before the festival. The traditional wisdom has always been the opposite: to not screen for anyone prior, let your film be seen by an audience, and generate the buzz from there.” ThinkingShouldBigsFilmCertainAudienceOppositesPressesScreensTraditionalFilmmakerFestivalsBuzzScreeningSundance Author:Thom Powers
“All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.” Can DoAudienceFocusCreatingDepthSpreadFilmmakerResonanceCreating Something Author:Megan Griffiths
“I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.” ThinkingStoriesSidesKnownAudienceFilmmakerMultiplePortraitsAmbiguous Author:Joe Berlinger
“A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.” ArtBookWantedAudiencePiecesOne ThingFilmmakerInterpretationWorks Of ArtMakers Author:Wesley Morris
“I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.” WantFeelsTryingMomentsFilmAudienceFilmmakerWow Author:Michael Pitt