Audience Quote by Edgar Wright

Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You…

— Spike Lee

Content that surprises the audience will attract them.

— Sara Khan

Surprises can be compelling.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick…

— Robert Redford

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from…

— Jason Graae

I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to…

— David O. Russell

The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged…

— Vidya Balan

It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any…

— Christopher Nolan

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…

— Asghar Farhadi

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

— Peter Bart

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend,…

— Josh Radnor

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come.…

— Woody Allen