Audience Quote by Werner Herzog

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda…

— Michael Haneke

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in…

— Frank Oz

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

— David Lean

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

Regarding the responsibility that a director has to society, first of all, there are ratings. There's freedom to make films, and freedom to watch…

— Takashi Miike

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by…

— John Carney

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

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to…

— Ed Murray

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

— Divya Dutta

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a…

— Delroy Lindo

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he…

— Michael Haneke