If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.
I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.