I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.
I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying.
The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
I think with any challenge or any matchup, I can have my own personal feelings of what I want, but it really all depends on our audience. Our job is to give them the best entertainment that we feel is right. If it's something that they want to see, they'll be loud and vocal about it, and we'll do it.
I'm not concerned that my stuff isn't extreme. I don't want to be heavy. I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and a positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.
As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.