Audience Quote by Mike Leigh

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

— Luc Besson

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing…

— Brian Cox

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They…

— Clint Eastwood

Frankly, I find it very odd that, in a population that's more than 50 per cent of women, that Hollywood isn't producing more movies…

— Phyllida Lloyd

I believe that films are meant for entertainment, but in that process, you have the possibility to think about what kind of entertainment you're…

— Rajiv Menon

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film.…

— Brett Ratner

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

— Drew Goddard

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's…

— Richard Linklater

I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture.…

— Wesley Morris

If a film has good content with its rawness and filmmaker try to make it glamourous for commercial aspects then it can create a…

— Sanjay Mishra

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that…

— Randeep Hooda

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

— Lucrecia Martel