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You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.