Assumption Quote by Bruno Dumont

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda…

— Michael Haneke

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just…

— Michael Haneke

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They…

— Bruno Dumont

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

— Ken Loach

With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.

— Michel Hazanavicius

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or…

— Milos Forman

This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a…

— Aparna Sen

With cinema it's a different ballgame, you really don't know how the audience will react, so one has to tread carefully.

— Hiten Tejwani

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise…

— Larry Cohen

When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what…

— Christopher McQuarrie

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

— Darren Aronofsky

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to…

— Werner Herzog