Audience Quote by Saul Bass

My position was that the film begins with the first frame and that the film should be doing a job at that point.

— Saul Bass

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

— Farhan Akhtar

I've always been interested in giving the audience a first-person experience in my movies.

— Doug Liman

Film was very expensive, so you couldn't waste a single frame. This meant spending time with the subject, getting to know them and finally,…

— Karan Kapoor

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an…

— Peter Greenaway

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

— William Mapother

A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.

— John Tiffany

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures,…

— Harry Shearer

Whenever you make a film, all you really want is for an audience to connect with it in some way.

— Gareth Evans

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

— Andrea Arnold

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over…

— Jean-Luc Godard

It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that…

— Karyn Kusama