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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.

— Shane Black

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

— Om Puri

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

— Lee Daniels

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

— Greg Kinnear

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Grant Heslov

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

— Barrett Foa

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

— Matthew Vaughn

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

— Tracy Chapman

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

— Ian Mckellen

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

— Samuel L. Jackson