Public quotes

“Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for.”
Michael Mann

“People are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.”
Nick Cassavetes

“Every film takes on a life of its own, and it's influenced by you, and it's influenced by all the other players that are involved with it as well.”
Kevin Reynolds

“In comedy it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.”
Bobby Farrelly

“I remember just being absolutely slack-jawed, stunned, knocked over, goggle-eyed with astonishment. They applauded like they were at a live Broadway show and I had never seen anything like that in my life.”

Kirk Wise

“It's not hard to get an audience to cry, but to get them to cry because it resonates with them - that's hard.”
Jeremy Leven

“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

“When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.”
Darren Aronofsky

“You know, your audience isn't even born yet.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Albert Milo

“- Betty Warren: She's smiling. Is she happy?
- Mrs. Warren: The important thing is not to tell anyone.
- Betty Warren: She looks happy. So, what does it matter?
- Mrs. Warren: Don't wash your dirty laundry in public.”

Kirsten Dunst - Betty Warren
Donna Mitchell - Mrs. Warren

“- John Chambers: Target audience will hate it.
- Tony Mendez: Who's the target audience?
- John Chambers: People with eyes.”
John Goodman - John Chambers
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“If the dog believes it, the audience believes it.”

James Lipton - The Director

“You and I belong to another era, George. The world is talking now. People want new faces, talking faces.”
John Goodman - Al Zimmer
Jean Dujardin

“It is terrible, terrible for you to rob me in this way of my most treasured feelings!”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Ludwig van Beethoven

So the guy tells me "Hey, Rog, would you sign an X for my kid?". I sign X and the son of a bitch takes off! I was going to give him a real autograph, I was just kidding around! We win the most important game of the season and this is the horseshit they write about?
Barry Pepper - Roger Maris

“- Daisy: I'm returning to the theatre.
- George Lass: Returning? I thought you only did movies.
- Daisy: What's the difference?
- George Lass: A live audience.”
Sarah Wynter - Daisy
Ellen Muth - George Lass

“The audience didn't tune in to watch some amazing display of intellectual ability. They just wanted to watch the money.”
Martin Scorsese - Martin Rittenhome

“The number one fear of people isn't dying, it's public speaking.”
Russell Crowe - Detective Richie Roberts

“Pap was right, the fans did want me to give them a magical moment, to let their imaginations soar, and believe that anything was possible. Win or lose, they did come back to see a floppy sock kid with the best of them.”
Tom Lester - Pete as adult

“I don't need your ferior stupidity, you don't get it. It's wasted on you. Pearls before swine.”

Eric Bogosian - Barry

“You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you... then you got to see something really special.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier

“You've got nothing, absolutely nothing. No brains, no power, no future, no hope, no God. The only thing you believe in is me. What are you if you don't have me. I'm not afraid see. I come in here every night, I make my case, I make my point, I say what I believe in. I tell you what you are, I have to, I have no choice! You frighten me! I come in...” (continue)(continue reading)

Eric Bogosian - Barry

“- Jerry Palter: We don't want people to reach for their remotes here.
- Mark Shubb: It's public television.
- Alan Barrows: They don't have remotes.”
Michael McKean - Jerry Palter
Harry Shearer - Mark Shubb
Christopher Guest - Alan Barrows

“I'll have to sit in the audience and watch you make love to another woman. Well, I hope it flops. That's what I hope.”

Madge Evans - Paula Jordan

“Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no one here to see you fall?”

Brad Pitt - Achilles