“We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.” IfsWantEnoughStoriesBigsFilmPayAudienceSmart Author:Duncan Jones
“For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.” KindTwoFilmNextFictionAudienceSmartScience FictionScalesMediumsFantasticBudgetsTwelveFavouriteHittingRunnersMonkeysBladesBlade Runner Author:Duncan Jones
“Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.” AudienceSmartDumb Author:Bruce Paltrow
“I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this business, so I get the audience's point of view.” WantGivingViewsOpinionAudienceWifeSmartScriptsMy WifePoint Of ViewCarolsReally Smart Author:Scott Glenn
“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
“If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.” IfsAudienceSmartHalfway Author:Dwayne Johnson
“And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.” WayCharacterLinesAudienceBrotherSmartCleanExtraordinaryWittyCommunicateGesturesCoen Brothers Author:Angelina Jolie
“I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensArtYoungArtistAudienceNew YorkSceneSmartTheaterTheatreHungryMy TimeSupportiveGreat ArtGreat ArtistDowntownReally Smart Author:Jon Bernthal
“The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.” ImportantFeelingsAudienceWiseLike YouSmartIntimateEmpoweringSurprisingFunny ThingsSeeming Author:Gloria Steinem
“If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.” IfsThinkingWorldLooksKindWholeFilmGamesNovelAudienceTvsIntegrityComputerSmartBasesSmellWhole WorldProducersSpinningGraphicVery SmartGraphic NovelsBeing PlayedComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.” IfsGamesAudiencePlanetsDemandComputerSmartHundredBiggerBeing SmartJakeComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.” ThinkingWritingYearsStillsRealBigsInterestingAudienceFansCoupleTasteSmartRepresentatives Author:Grant Morrison
“You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.” PlayAttentionAudienceSmartExtraordinaryDumbEquipmentBlondeBeing SmartDumb Blonde Author:Judy Holliday
“The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.” PeopleHumansCharacterCan DoHuman BeingsRoomsAudienceOne ThingJourneyEmotionalSmartOnlineSatisfyingSmart People Author:Frank Spotnitz
“Smart brands never try to appeal to more than their audience group. Assuming you're audience is one of the segments that watches, it's your chance to galvanize this specific group, which is larger here than anywhere else, with a bold new idea that can re-magnetize the human/brand connection for a new year.” TryingYearsHumansIdeasChanceWatchesAudienceGroupsSmartConnectionsAssumingBrandsAppealsNew YearNew Ideas Author:Joshua Rogers
“I've had a long association with the theater over the years but I had never produced a play and it was something that I'd always wanted to do.The movies moved away from dramas, and I think that I'm very excited by the opportunity to take smart writing that takes risks and see it on stage. It's exciting to see that engagement between the audience and the playwright.” ThinkingWritingYearsLongPlayWantedOpportunityAudienceRiskStageDramaSmartExcitingTheaterMovedExcitedEngagementAssociationPlaywright Author:Colin Callender
“I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.” IfsThinkingWayRealMoralAudienceStupidSmartCrapReal ThingsNot Stupid Author:Michael Pitt
“I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.” KnowsEnoughAudienceSmartTreats Author:Aisha Tyler