Audience Quote by Seth Grahame-Smith

For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To…

— Richard Shepard

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

Usually, people begin with very clear ideas of good movies, they begin with clear ideas about their characters, and then, as they do sequels,…

— Brad Bird

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds,…

— Barry Levinson

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

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

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they…

— Jane Cleland

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

— Jonathan Mostow

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're…

— Kathleen Kennedy

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much…

— Thomas Sadoski