“I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.” WayActorsImaginationAbilityViewsAudienceSurfaceGood ActorsSmall PartsIceberg Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography
“Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.” PeopleWayMindWellsStillsBigsFilmActorsAsksBitsInterestImaginationFictionAcceptingAudienceImpossibleDivineSourceRootsIntelligentScience FictionAbstractBig QuestionsAlong For The RideFilm ActorsGood Science Author:Nicolas Cage
“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.” WantShowsCertainImaginationAudienceTalentTypeIndividualityIndividualismTruthfulPredecessorsBeing TruthfulReplicate Author:Renny Harlin
“Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.” NeedsWellsHardProblemAbleImaginationAudienceTendenciesPushingThroatThrustBiggest Fear Author:Nick Cave
“If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantImaginationAudienceCapacityWhat's ImportantRobbing Author:Michael Haneke
“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 want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.” WantTryingWellsStillsSometimesStuffImaginationAbilityFantasyAudienceMagicViolentBulletsMidnightEnchantmentVenuesBloodshedEclectic Author:Nicolas Cage
“The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.” NeedsArtUseImaginationAudienceDisbelief Author:William Friedkin
“The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.” WantUseShowsImaginationAudienceComputerAskingMonstersLimitationFormatInteractive Author:Glenn McQuaid