Audience Quotes

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

I love the theater because I love the live audience and when we went three cameras we have a live audience in the study so we had someone to play to and react to. That laughter.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

Genius requires an audience.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important.

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run.

I consider music to be a service and I am trying to serve the music, the musicians and the audience the best I can at every moment.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

It seems like movies that have heart to them always do well, and they find their audience.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution