Anthony Hemingway Quotes

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

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

We don't look at 'Maha Kumbh' as just another serial. We would like viewers to see what we see. We haven't had a game-changer on Indian television for a very long time. We hope this one will make difference to the way audiences look at the home-viewing medium.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.