Audience Autonomy Quotes

It's up to the audience. It always has been.

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

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

The filmmaker is not telling you what to think.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

In entertainment, if you have a message in a film, no one wants to be spoon-fed the message. No one wants to be told how to feel. At least, I don't.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.