Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
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.
Audiences are audiences.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.