I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.
I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.
I always expect people to be torn when they see one of my films and divided in some way.
Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.
The intensity of 'Arjun Reddy' was too much for me.
American audiences, a lot of people couldn't understand a word of 'The Witch.'
People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.
If I was being very honest about it, probably more honest than I should be, '28 Days Later' was a reaction to 'The Beach' in some ways because I felt it lacked a kind of aggression in it.
I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.
I've seen Animal House two and a half times now at sneak previews with a real audience, and the reaction was great.
I remember when 'Daddy Day Care' came out, I saw fathers and their sons and daughters walking out of the theater and talking about the movie. That's the neatest thing.
If you test Iron Man and that audience doesn't respond well, you can be damn sure that there is something wrong with the movie that you have to address. Because they're expecting a certain amount of action, right? They want a hero. There are certain things that have to be compatible with the way the audience is thinking about it. If you take some other film, like No Country for Old Men, you can end up with all kinds of crazy reactions.
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.
With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been offered. Phenomenal.' But, I was daunted, you know? Like the concept of trying to be a cop. It's just bizarre, man. Bizarre to even think about.
