Bigger Quote by Lenny Bruce

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for…

— Michael Haneke

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your…

— Ray Bradbury

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one…

— Karl Kraus

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's…

— John Malkovich

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat…

— Amy Heckerling

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I don't believe in making those high-brow films that the audience does not understand.

— Vikram Bhatt

There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.

— Carrie Brownstein

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's…

— David Fincher

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise…

— Larry Cohen

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

— Dean Koontz

Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.

— Johnny Flynn