Audience Quote by Rowan Atkinson

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story…

— Sterling K. Brown

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to…

— John Kahrs

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with…

— Conrad Hall

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that…

— Ted Danson

It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The…

— Bill Pullman

To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the…

— Ti West

Everything today is such a massive visual show. It's very rare to get a film where the characters are raw and real - and…

— Wade Eastwood

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable…

— Ira Sachs

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered…

— Mary McCarthy

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films…

— Panos Cosmatos