#spectator

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

— Thomas Macaulay

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It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players. ↗

— Red Smith

#day #football #ideal #players #spectators

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#day #only #only time #own #read

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