Atom Egoyan Quotes

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.

The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts.

Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.

Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It's not just settling into what we think they want.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I want to make movies that I would want to watch as a fan.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

If my fans only want me to do a certain kind of films, then 'Naanaku Prematho' would have failed miserably. They've entrusted me with the freedom to select good and different scripts.

I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.

I only make those films that I would love to watch.

I started making films purely based on what I would like to see.

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.

I just want to do films which I enjoy doing and the audience will too like it watching.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.