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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
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 make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
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.
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.