A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the… — Tadanobu Asano Copy Share Image
I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
One time when I played Australia I had a death threat, and they tried to keep it from me, but I found… — Liberace Copy Share Image
There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in… — Stephen K. Bannon Copy Share Image
Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned is that the audience not only wants to be talked to but they also like to talk back.… — Jonathan Coulton Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I think that music lovers are going to love me. I think the pop songs that… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every… — Andre Simon Copy Share Image
You want to take yourself seriously, and you want to make something that you hope will have resonance with the audience. You… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image