Audience Quote by Kim Longinotto

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to…

— Sam Levinson

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

— Frank Coraci

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

When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

— Jodie Foster

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very…

— Steven Spielberg

I don't want to be part of films that are just manufactured, and not made with true passion; I only want to be part…

— Sherlyn Chopra

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

— Grant Heslov

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

— Wes Anderson

But for me, at one point I was like, 'Why do I want to make films that people want to walk out of?' What…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

— Ondi Timoner

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

— Ryan Phillippe