Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers then society would appear very different from what it is.

Musicians are there in front of you and the spectators sense their tension which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators are active not passive observers.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.