Approach Quote by Walter Koenig

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

— Nicolas Cage

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

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what…

— Delroy Lindo

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

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive,…

— Claude Chabrol

One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's participation in…

— RaMell Ross

Our films have to entertain without the viewer being guided to a humdrum set of do's and don't's. At the same time, as a…

— Vivek Agnihotri

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be…

— Jeremy Renner

I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much…

— Kelly Asbury

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise…

— Larry Cohen

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an…

— Simon Pegg

Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it…

— Dave McKean