Able Quote by Jeremy Northam

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have…

— Grant Heslov

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

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

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story.

— John Tiffany

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose…

— Paul Feig

I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to…

— Willem Dafoe

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and…

— Scott Derrickson

If I can get the audience to connect with the characters emotionally - and they love who they are, they love the larger-than-life situation…

— James Wan

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if…

— Chinua Achebe

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so…

— Debra Granik

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

— Jonny Lee Miller