I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes,… — John Edward Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
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There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries.… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
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When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
I think it's what we've always tried to do, is just find a unique way in, and find a unique way to… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
Well, because we're talking here about people who've been ordered deported and the administration has done nothing about actually making sure that… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
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I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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