Able Quote by Mark Waters

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going…

— Todd Solondz

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

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have…

— Grant Heslov

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

— Jonathan Mostow

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

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all…

— John Lancaster Spalding

What is the point of telling stories if they don't reach people? As a filmmaker, you want a certain interaction with the audience.

— Kabir Khan

There are days when either filmmaking feels like an insurmountable practice - here's a lot of obstacles in the way to make it happen…

— Debra Granik

It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want…

— Joseph Kosinski

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

— Christopher McQuarrie

In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real…

— Abbas Kiarostami

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni