Allow Quote by John M. Ford

I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the…

— Dallas Roberts

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things…

— Nicole Krauss

I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

— Conrad Hall

It's always nice to know people are watching and having their own ideas about things and it's nice when your audience starts trying to…

— Vincent Kartheiser

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

— Justin Peck

“The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in…

— Ray Rhamey

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding…

— Michael Haneke

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try…

— Matthew Bourne

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust