Henry Mancini Quotes

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.

Regardless of what film you make, you want people to watch your film, and you ultimately need commercial success.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

I never wanted to make movies just for me. I want to make movies that people watch.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Awards season is not something that I think about. What I enjoy a lot is knowing that people go and see the movie and they love the movie.

You're only making movies for two reasons: Because you have something to say or because you want to entertain people.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.

Content is now the most import factor that decides a film's success at the box office, so we as filmmakers are all trying different stories.

It's not enough that you act in a movie - if it has to work, the audience should like it.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.