I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think people make way too much of ratings.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
You know, you want to pull in a wide audience.
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.