“One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.” Has BeensSaidFeelingsFilmArtistResultsAudienceHeroAgreeForgivingPainterArtisticBowie Author:Maynard James Keenan
“It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.” PeopleHardReasonWould BeFilmChallengesResultsPayWatchesAudienceDirectorsPrimariesReason WhyBoredomAccomplishedHuntingMainstreamCrewVansGood WillLureRemakesPsychoCloutGusWill Hunting Author:James Berardinelli
“I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFilmAudienceFansComfortableHonestlyIdentifying Author:Kangana Ranaut
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” ShouldMindBelieveHumansFilmLeftI BelieveBitsAudienceDramaHorrorHollywoodTerrorI Believe InScreensRelatedDullLengthEnduranceAnticipationBangsLeft OutBladder Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsHas BeensCountrySometimesLastsFilmDesireStrongAudienceCoupleHollywoodDrawingTicketsGood MovieLining Up Book:Raising Kane and Other Essays Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.” PeopleFirstsMomentsFeelingsBigsFilmYoungAudienceDangerousClothesHollywoodMannersRememberedAffectedScotchSlugs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“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.” ThinkingBelieveCareFilmPurposeFoundMoralAudienceToo MuchTalentDangerReadyAnxietyDevilHollywoodAtheistCrowdsPhrasesWarningDislikeGrossFuriousPretextCinematicHitchcockNaggingExorcismExorcistWarning Signs Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?” IfsYearsFirstsWantedFilmThreeProcessPresidentAudienceWeekTelevisionRevolutionHollywoodCreditCables Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.” FilmAudienceHollywoodHistoricalContemporaryLeapDeliberate Author:Andrew Tudor
“Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.” FilmAudienceWesternTalesNativeNative AmericanLackingEpicWestern Films Author:Beau Bridges
“Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.” FilmAudienceSpecialI RealizedItalianDistinguishedNicheSomething SpecialEarly WorkFilm History Author:Dario Argento
“The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?” ChildrenFilmDifficultCompanyFantasyAudienceHorrorCategoriesHorror FilmFantasy Films Author:Neil Jordan
“One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsReasonHelpingFilmActorsAudienceToms Author:Sam Mendes
“You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.” KnowsMayFilmAudienceLaughingKnow HowComedyMonthsSixDrawsSix MonthsVacuums Author:Theodore Bikel
“I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.” TryingHas BeensFilmWatchesAudienceSuccessfulTheaterCommunicateNot Sure Author:Lee Yoon-ki
“I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.” KnowsEndsCharacterFilmWinningChallengesCareersAudienceStudySpecialEffectsPeriodsScriptsContemporaryAttractivePleasantBumpsSeducingSpecial Effects Author:Michael Douglas
“I'm not looking for is the audience going to like it [the film during the first screening] or not. I want to hear somebody try to poke a hole in it. I want to hear why they saw the logic was flawed or why that scene was not believable.” WantTryingFirstsFilmAudienceSawsSceneLogicHolesFlawedBelievableScreeningPoke Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura
“My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.” StillsReasonFilmAudienceSticksDedicatedFollow MeDiehard Author:Martin Lawrence
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?” PeopleIfsWantBelieveUseHandsSeemsFilmTalkingAudienceViolenceGoes OnBalanceDirectorsPressesDon't BelieveDenyAssumptionMovieCensorshipOffendedImplicationsBrillianceBrutalityThugFreedom Of The PressDazzling Author:Pauline Kael
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.” IfsNeedsI CanImportantEyeCareFilmMovingAudienceStageLessonsElementsPagesPicksDon't CareScreensI Don't CareFlipScreenplaysLearning Lessons Author:Robert Evans
“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.” IfsNeedsMadeSometimesMatterAbleFilmNextLosesAudienceToo MuchImagineSubjectsTypeMembersDirectGenreSensitiveImagine ThatSubject Matter Author:Steven Spielberg
“Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.” PeopleFilmFightingHoursAudienceTerribleJokesOld PeoplePromotionHong KongAmerican FamilyRush Hour Author:Jackie Chan
“just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience.” MenFirstsLastsFilmEasyTermAudienceViolenceHe ManCapableMediumsDramaticPrimitiveRefugeVulgarResortsIncompetentObscenityInarticulate Book:The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde Source: The private eye, the cowboy, and the very naked girl: movies from Cleo to Clyde
“'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.” HardLastsFilmAudienceMovedWestAcceptedHong Kong Author:John Woo
“When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.” MadeTwoIdeasHardWould BeWantedFilmActorsAudienceTeamInternationalFatsNo Idea Author:John Woo
“Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.” FilmCultureAudienceGainsWesternChinaImpressionExcellentPromoting Author:Bill Vaughan
“I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.” IfsThinkingKnowsLongUseBigsAbleFilmSpaceAudienceCuttingFansShotsThese DaysBoredLong Shots Author:Alice Englert
“I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.” WantFilmAudienceAssumingManipulateShorthand Author:John Cassavetes
“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
“Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.” ImportantFilmActorsResponsibilityWatchesAudienceAliveFansJudgingCarefulGladImmenseSigning Author:Rani Mukerji
“The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.” LooksLittlesRealityFilmBitsAudienceLittle BitHarderConvincingCaricatures Author:John Lasseter