Audience Quotes

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

Point of sale is where you reach 100% of your audience 100% of the time.

Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble

Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.

I am here for 5 days to enjoy myself and rest. Israel is a beautiful country and the audience is full of passion and I enjoy everything there is here.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

If you actually have to engage with somebody who's superior to you and actually battle with them, struggle with them, I think it's more interesting, and funnier for the audience.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Stop thinking about the audience and what they may be thinking of your music. Just play the music.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

Had I just begged for an audience with Death?

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.