I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.
I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.
I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries, or is so much about black people as victims in this country, and black people not taking control of their own lives and their own destinies.
Number one, as an audience member, I tend to like violent movies and TV shows because it's not real.
It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.
I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
