If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.
Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.
Audiences are always open to an interesting story.
If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.
If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.
'Homeland' is intense, and I think it would be a hard show to watch if it were intense for 60 straight minutes.
I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.
I am fascinated by storytelling glue. Anytime I see someone who's good at it, I stop and wonder, 'How'd they 'do this? Why can't I tear myself away?
