Viewer Experience Quotes

I loved 'Lost,' from beginning to end.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

I love TV as a viewer.

With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

'Happy Valley' has really changed things for me.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

I want my channel to be a place people go even if they don't care about Lilly. I don't want them to have to know about Lilly or care about me as a person to enjoy my content.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. With these abstract pictures, although the eye recognizes them as photographic rather than painted, the eye also tries to connect them to reality. There's always this association machine working in the brain, and that is why it is important to me that they are actually photographic and not painted.