Audience Quotes

Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

When you're in front of an audience, you know if it didn't work. I get very nervous and have a fear of failure that is much more profound than in the podcast world.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

I don't know that you can do an absurdist film and just have everybody embrace it in terms of filling out cards. I just don't think it happens. So you have to prepare an audience.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.