Anil Ravipudi Quotes

A lot of filmmakers hate testing movies. I love it because it's an audience medium. The biggest problem has been the prevalence of all these Internet sites. It's almost impossible to have a test screening without it leaking out on the Internet.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.

One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

You can put your music out on YouTube and get messages from all over the world.

I think that's the thing I love about making content online - you get instant response.

To me, mass media is when you are able to use a platform to reach an audience on a large, global scale, and I think YouTube has certainly achieved that and is still finding ways to bring a wider range of content to its audience.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can't go out trying to impress these people.

I just feel that if people write about a film, then they should also write about audience's response.

The Web has incredible potential for an artist who keeps in touch with millions of people.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

I think what working in a short film online is that the response from the audience is immediate whether your short film or web-series works or not, it is immediate. You can see comments and you can also see how many people have viewed it.

When you're filming any show off a live audience, you get a feedback straightaway about how it's going, and the audience always enjoyed it.

The videos I put on YouTube have expanded my audience beyond what I could have done at just a Hamburger Mary's. People saw the videos, started booking me, and literally 40-plus countries and thousands of gigs later I can basically say that YouTube has bought me a house.

I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.