Artifacts Quote by A. O. Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

— Ridley Scott

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

— Stephen Frears

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

— Bill Forsyth

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really…

— Brad Bird

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

— Alexander Payne

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

— Alan Rickman

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a…

— Delroy Lindo

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

— Paresh Rawal

Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything,…

— Michael Cera

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

— Lulu Wang

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

— Harvey Weinstein

Some of the corporate houses are using films as a means to market their brands. They are not concerned with the storyline. When it…

— Satish Kaushik