I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people…

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

— Katha Pollitt

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

— E. W. Howe

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're…

— Lynne Ramsay

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a…

— Octavia Butler

The audience is making the film and not the film-maker.

— Woody Allen

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three…

— Casey Cott

On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.

— Colton Dixon

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's…

— Harold Prince

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if…

— Walter Murch

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.”

— wildbow

“Why on earth had I agreed to this? Oh, that's right. He suckered me into it with his manipulating words and those damn dimples.”

— Ella Frank

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

— John Smith

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have…

— Nick Cave