Jon Watts Quotes

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

Film is a medium where the audience gives you 100 per cent.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.

My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their popcorn, and I've got to show them a good time and make them feel something.

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."