“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
“Instead of the 1997 film directed, written, by James Cameron with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane creating a love story and a large diamond with a beautiful song “My Heart Will Go On” sung by Celine Dion. What about the real love story that took place that night between the passengers themselves, and many crew members knowing they would also give their lives. Adding another meaning for “SOS” Service, Obedience, and Sacrifice.” GivingHeartRealStoriesBeautifulFilmNightSongKnowingWrittenSacrificeGoes OnMy HeartMembersCreatingLove StoryObedienceDiamondReal LoveCrewKatePassengersCameronLeonardoCeline Author:Tom Baker
“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.” ThinkingWayIdeasSelfCharacterFilmCertainDealsAudienceGreaterMembersAskingDistanceServingQuestioningDiscourseArenaObjectivityWrong WaySelf ServingProvoked Author:Colin Farrell
“Even though I'm an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it's TV, film, theater, whatever, it's a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just look for if it feels honest and real to me.” IfsKnowsFeelsLooksLittlesRealBigsFilmActorsBitsViewsAudienceHonestHonestyTvsMembersLittle BitTheaterBig Movie Author:Elisabeth Moss
“One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" [movie], the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.” PeopleFirstsFilmMovingProcessAudienceGoneOne ThingCrazyStreetsMembersMoving ForwardUpliftingEnjoyedPirate Author:Johnny Depp
“I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.” WayHardFilmWatchesAudienceMembersYeahFantasticImpressive Author:Chris Hemsworth
“When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.” FilmFunAudienceMembersStressExcitementFestivalsFilm Festivals Author:Mora Stephens
“I believe that if you go and see a film you should have to sort of invest something yourself and you have to do a little bit of the work as an audience member, so when you leave the cinema you should be having those conversations either with yourself - if you're crazy like me- or with friends afterwards.” IfsShouldBelieveLittlesFilmI BelieveBitsAudienceCrazyConversationMembersLittle BitShould HaveLike MeCinema Author:Michael Fassbender
“You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.” KnowsIdeasSometimesPlayCharacterFilmActorsAudiencePlansMiddleMembersVagueArcsVague Ideas Author:Evan Peters
“Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.” FilmAudienceDisciplineMembersEditorsSurrogates Author:Jay Cassidy
“I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral message because that would exclude so many people from feeling that it was their film and it's important for a piece of work to feel owned by every member of the audience.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindImportantIdeasFeelingsFilmMoralAudiencePiecesMembersMessagesResistance Author:Tilda Swinton
“When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.” FilmFieldsDependsMembersIndependentWideAccessArtisticAppealsDeniedUnfairDistributionIndependent FilmPlaying Fields Author:Norman Jewison
“I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.” IfsFeelsKindMomentsFactsFilmGamesResultsAudienceMembersJudgmentExpectationsAppearanceThemeLayersSuperficialViewersTwists Author:Asghar Farhadi
“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.” KnowsFirstsMadeHardFilmChurchAttitudeFourWonderfulModernMembersAtmosphereFeaturesWonderful ThingsGeorgiaBaptistsModern DayChurch MembersAlbany Author:Alex Kendrick
“It's very, very technical, what we do in film. While all of the lights are there and all of the crew members and directors are staring right at you, you have to be honest. It's a very difficult, but technical medium.” LightFilmDifficultHonestDirectorsMembersMediumsBeing HonestStaringCrew Author:Jeffrey Donovan
“I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially.” FeelsDoneFilmMovingActorsEqualMembersAustraliaCrewEquationsMoving Parts Author:Emily Browning
“I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.” ThinkingSaidFilmFunAudienceBloodHorrorMembersActressesSuspenseFakeHorror Film Author:Grace Phipps
“Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind.” MindFilmAdventureMembersCastsBlowCrewNew Adventure Author:Gabriel Campisi
“I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.” FeelsLooksStillsFilmAudienceDirectorsMembers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I'm a member of the Recording Academy and I see the way it works and even with the whole voting process it's broken down into specific categories. There are Pop categories and Dance and Rock and Metal and Film and Score and everything else. Basically when you are voting you are urged not to vote in the category that you don't know anything about.” KnowsWayWholeFilmProcessRocksBrokenMembersVotePopsScoreVotingCategoriesMetalsAcademyBroken Down Author:John Petrucci
“To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called 'Big Jim McClain.'” BigsFilmHouseActivityMembersCreditCommitteesWayne Author:Jay Roach
“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.” WayStoriesFilmTechnologyAudienceMembersConceptsConcernedRemainsNoiseBellsPopular Film Author:Steven Spielberg