Acting Quote by Jesse Eisenberg

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it…

— Clint Eastwood

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what…

— Delroy Lindo

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that…

— Christopher Nolan

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll…

— James Gray

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular…

— Willem Dafoe

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

— Gautham Menon

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

— Julia Leigh

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know.

— Jason Statham

We want box office success, critical acclaim, awards and everything else. But I think when the audience likes a film, that appreciation is far…

— Kiran Rao

If people are reacting to films based on their degree of success or failure, then they're not really looking at the movie. I don't…

— Matt Dillon

Yeah, people seem to really relate to it and feel moved by it. It's been the most positively received of all my movies so…

— Nicole Holofcener