Audience Quotes

The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.

I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.

There are two kinds of films: the ones that are devoid of logic but can still hijack the audience, and those that can win them over with logic. Both kinds can succeed, and I like to work in both.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.