Audience Quotes
Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
I don't really think about the audience much. I think of myself. Let me dig myself out of that one.
It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.
I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.
Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.
I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.
Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.
Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.
I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.
I think you always have to try to expand the content to make it exciting for the audience and the kids out there with the cars and the robots.
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.
The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.