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“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Thinking Self Mistake Audience Too Much Conscious Making Mistakes Self Conscious Thinking Too Much

Book:Inception: The Shooting Script

Source: Inception: The Shooting Script

“There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.”

Enough Might Worry Audience Too Much

Book:Inception: The Shooting Script

Source: Inception: The Shooting Script

“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.”

Knows Heart Audience Too Much Filmmaker Villain

Author:Sharlto Copley

“I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart.”

Thinking Should Writing Trying Heart Worry Audience Too Much Target Target Audience

Author:Martin Gore

“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”

“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.”

Ifs Needs Made Sometimes Matter Able Film Next Loses Audience Too Much Imagine Subjects Type Members Direct Genre Sensitive Imagine That Subject Matter

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.”

Thinking Hours Half Audience Too Much Anxiety Notion Pretentious

Author:Jean Dujardin

“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Book Enough Would Be Reading Audience Fire Too Much Written Stage Setting Settings Scare Laptops

Author:Robin Wasserman

“I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.”

Trying Audience Too Much Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Kaki King

“I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.”

Thinking World Way Trying Believe Moments Character Break Audience Comedy Too Much Spells Undermining Great Comedy

Author:James Franco

“The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.”

Ifs Way Persons Stories Turns Literature Fiction Audience Too Much Fans Science Fiction Lays Average Details Rely Short Story Translate Lifelong Average Person Density Opaque

Author:James Cameron

“Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying yourself on stage too much, they're having a terrible time because they can't hear you. And if you're a woman your mascara's running.”

Ifs Feels May Might Running Night Causes Enjoy Audience Too Much Stage Terrible Performances Mascara Terrible Times

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.”

Knows Hours Audience Too Much Four Minutes Nervous Fifty

Author:Agnes Varda

“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.”

Ifs Giving Play Problem Film Actors Sound Sides Rooms Powerful Audience Too Much Huge Conversation Give Me Add Editing Toolbox

Author:Dave McKean

“I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.”

Thinking Trying Character Audience Too Much Likeable

Author:Paula Patton