“The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.” LongRunningAudienceStageFrontsMonthsPeriodsTheaterGreat ThingsRehearsal Author:Sanaa Lathan
“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
“American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.” ThinkingLittlesCountryAmericaBitsAudiencePiecesPeriodsLittle BitFascinatedOld Things Author:Channing Tatum
“The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.” ThinkingWayRealRealityFilmFunAudienceStyleParticularPeriodsSettingSettingsHaving Fun Author:Lionel Wigram
“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
“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingReadingAudienceWrittenPeriods Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.” CharacterWantedAudienceTelevisionPeriodsBranchesAmerican Television Author:Joseph Morgan
“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.” DoeIdeasProblemGrowsUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyAudienceDesignIdentityDependsPeriodsApproachConceptsFocusedDrivenErasEvolveTime Periods Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLittlesStoriesBigsMovingAudiencePeriodsDramaHungerNostalgiaRebelSentimentality Author:Andrew Davies
“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.” IfsGivingChoicesIndividualPerfectResultsAudienceSubjectsListeningInvolvedPeriodsDramaTreatmentInstructionSympatheticFreedom Of ChoiceGreat Results Author:George P. Baker
“Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian.” WayMeanFilmActorsActingQualityAudiencePeriodsPerformancesReally MeanVictorianFormality Author:Christopher Nolan
“I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.” MenFeelsBelieveRealFilmHateGirlLanguageAudienceLandPeriodsSceneI HateDon't BelieveSexyContemporaryPlentyCorsets Author:Mike Leigh
“I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.” ThinkingDoneFilmDarkAudienceFourPeriodsShotsHollywoodMeant To BeGoing To Work Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to think, you have just completely slapped the audience in the face and not given them the opportunity to interest it, and that's terrible.” IfsThinkingShouldFacesOpportunityGivenInterestAudiencePeriodsTerribleDirectorsCriticsFilmmaker Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John Powell, our composer, says is, "Is the song engaging you to tap your toe?" If you're not tapping your toe, it doesn't matter what you're doing in the song, it's not going to work. But, if you can get the audience to be engaged by the song, then it gives you the opportunity to accomplish so much, in a very concise way.” IfsWayGivingFirstsMatterSongOpportunityAudienceAmountPeriodsIncrediblesAccomplishEngagedComposerToesEngagingGoing To WorkTappingConcise Author:Christopher Meledandri
“A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.” IfsKnowsFeelsStillsCharacterFilmRomanceChallengesAudienceKnow HowSuccessfulPeriodsHorrorElementsUnderstoodScaryIf I Could Author:Cary Fukunaga
“For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeJobsViewsAudiencePeriodsJokesPoint Of ViewYour Weird Author:Eugene Mirman
“Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.” IfsHumansFilmProcessForgetAudienceTroublePeriodsBattleRelationHonestlyStorytellingEngagingHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsIntrigued Author:Ridley Scott
“I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.” KnowsTryingBelieveMadeAttentionAudiencePeriodsDramaHusbandElementsSuicideDon't BelieveReactionsContemporaryRepresentatives Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a storyline or a character moment that we can play out. The more experience you've had, the more beneficial it is, period.” PlayMomentsCharacterForceTermSituationAudiencePeriodsBeneficialEditsStoryline Author:Barry Levinson
“I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.” IfsShowsHomeFilmActorsChallengesPowerfulCareersAudienceWiseTvsIndustryPeriodsEasierSeriesTheatreStorytellingIntimateComing HomeViewersBroadwayAnd OffNetflixBroadway ShowsTractionLonger Life Author:Steven C. Harper
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.” MadeEnoughFactsTalkingAudienceAirCarPeriodsFlowChecksMainstreamBotheredTime PeriodsBuckminster FullerZephyr Author:Jonathon Keats