When Our Ancestors Crouched About The Camp FIRE At Night, They Told Each Other Tales Of Gods And Heroes, Monsters And Marvels, To HOLD Back The Terrors Of The Night. Such Tales Comforted And Entertained, Diverted And Educated Those Who Listened, And Helped SHAPE Their Sense Of The World And Their PLACE In It.

Australians Just Don't SEE That Many Australian Films, But It's Also Our RESPONSIBILITY As Filmmakers And The Responsibility Of The Funding BODIES To Remember That AUDIENCES Want To Be ENTERTAINED, And People Are Entertained In Lots Of Different Ways.

You Don't Know What Someone's GOING To Walk Away From A Movie With, But You HOPE It's Something Positive, But If Nothing, You Want Them Most Basically To Be Entertained And Engaged. That's Your Job. But You ALSO Hope To Give Them Something To Chew On Or Maybe Some Insight Into The Human Existence, You Hope A Little Bit. Not To SOUND Too Lofty.

It Is QUITE Extraordinary How Very Various Are The Opinions Entertained On This Point, And, Before Sifting Them, One MUST Be Careful In The FIRST PLACE To Eliminate From Our Inquiry The Cases Of That Considerable Class Of Persons Who Pinch Themselves.

When I'm SHOOTING A Movie, I'm Always In An Invisible THEATER Seat. I Respect The Fact That People Have Worked Hard All WEEK And Want To GO To The MOVIES On The Weekend And Be Entertained.

It's FUNNY How HUMAN BEINGS Are So ENTERTAINED By CRIMES.

I Just Want People To FINISH The Book And Say, 'I Was Entertained.' When I Set Out To Do It, I Had No Deal In Place. I Knew It Would Be TOUGH. I READ Somewhere That John Steinbeck Was TURNED Down 22 TIMES On His First Novel. But I Was Just Going To Do It.

If You Were Black, You Experienced PREJUDICE. It Wasn't A REAL HORRIBLE Thing For Us; We Went Through It. We Noticed It Mostly In The South And In Las Vegas, Where We Couldn't Stay In The Hotels Where We Entertained. But That Began To Change.