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Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.