I need to know who the audience are in any particular…

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

— Simon McBurney

I had a very linear story line for this particular play, and I wanted to open the piece up a bit, so I started…

— Philip Kan Gotanda

That one thing that people say about me taking plays off, I feel like somebody said that when I was playing in college and…

— Julius Peppers

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old…

— Bobby Sands

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and…

— David Ayer

If I knew what the audience wants to hear I would be the richest guy in the world! There are a lot of people…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to…

— Mick Jagger

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

— Tyler Perry

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no…

— Steve Martin

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

— Shane Carruth

I talk only about my journey because that's all I know. That's what the audience always pulls me back to. There's a hunger out…

— Mariette Hartley

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They…

— Thom Andersen

“Know your audience! With the high level of cultural sensitivity these days, it is often better to err on the side of caution. If…

— Susan C. Young

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

— Tennessee Ernie Ford

The key is to identify and know what the audience wants and give it to them in the best package possible.

— Bhushan Kumar