“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“In order to make movies you have to think about the audience. You have to - otherwise you're just making movies for yourself. It's like, eh, like artistic masturbation.”

“People are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.”
Nick Cassavetes

“In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.”
Randal Kleiser

“As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.”
Alan Ladd