“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“Sadly cinema owners are more interested in their bottom line, than the emotional maturity of their audience members.”
Marianne Muellerleile

“Cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of whether we feel deeply, but on whether or not anyone's bloody well going to see it.”
Richard Lester

“Paris is terribly expensive and I don't see how anyone would do a picture here for reasons of economy. It must be something else. Perhaps it's what the French call 'ambiance'.”
Anthony Perkins