#spectator

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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.


Orson Welles


#excite #flying #hamlet #means #playing

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.


Kenneth Clark


#arouse #art #bad #does #even

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


E. M. Forster


#assumes #existence #exists #fact #indifferent

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.


Francois Truffaut


#film #friends #made #number #person

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.


Michael Haneke


#audience #completes #consumers #film #give

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.


Michael Haneke


#answer #answers #appear #cinema #different

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.


Michael Haneke


#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures

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.


James Humes


#even #leader #leaders #leadership #mind

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.


Nigel Mansell


#cars #drivers #enough #format #get