You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.
My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
I am like the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily.
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
