Ahead Quote by Grant Heslov

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the…

— Robert Rodriguez

I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the…

— Anna Quindlen

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're…

— Kathleen Kennedy

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and…

— Vijay Sethupathi

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

— Steven Spielberg

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able…

— Jeremy Northam

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like…

— Brent Runyon

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of…

— Edward Norton

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how…

— Eli Drake