Audience Quote by Jonathan Mostow

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 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

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

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare…

— Robert Redford

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the…

— Rishi Kapoor

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

— Ray Harryhausen

I don't why whatever works and whatever doesn't. You just make the film that you enjoy making at the time, and you think there's…

— Woody Allen

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or…

— Milos Forman

I agree that a story is a story and you can enjoy it for what it is, but I think inadvertently a filmmaker's politics…

— Kabir Khan

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

— Mick Garris

When you make movies, you've picked the most expensive art form, and somebody has to pay for it. You kind of owe it to…

— Mike Judge

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient…

— Lars von Trier