Cinema Quote by Jack Valenti

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

— Naomi Watts

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

— Grant Heslov

One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's participation in…

— RaMell Ross

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

— Catherine Hicks

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public…

— Robert Pattinson

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

— Park Chan-wook

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

— David Fincher

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

— Park Bo-young

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

— Christopher Nolan

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

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

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

— Richard Thompson