--- title: "7 Affect Audience Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Affect Audience quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Affect Audience sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/tom-waits-916_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-af_253507.jpg" --- > [I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-affect-your-audience-is-more/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/tom-waits-916_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-af_253507.jpg) > [There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/there-s-nothing-more-embarrassing-than-a-person-who-tries-to-guess/) [Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c6/tom-waits-916_audience_there-s-nothing-more-embarrassing-than-a_287670.jpg) > [Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-reitman/comedy-and-horror-are-cousins-they-re-related-they-both-come-from/) [Jason Reitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-reitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/jason-reitman-6741_audience_comedy-and-horror-are-cousins-they-re-re_556386.png) > [Even if an episode is self-contained, the preceding episodes always affect how the audience takes it in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hiro-murai/even-if-an-episode-is-self-contained-the-preceding-episodes-always/) [Hiro Murai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hiro-murai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/hiro-murai-8327_affect_even-if-an-episode-is-self-contained-the_1689479.jpg) > [When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-kinnaman/when-it-s-a-moral-grey-zone-the-audience-has-to-think-about-what-they/) [Joel Kinnaman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-kinnaman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/joel-kinnaman-4273_about_when-it-s-a-moral-grey-zone-the-audience_1925342.jpg) > [In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abbas-kiarostami/in-this-type-of-cinema-whether-working-with-actors-or-non-actors-as/) [Abbas Kiarostami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abbas-kiarostami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4d/abbas-kiarostami-2631_actors_in-this-type-of-cinema-whether-working-w_1940855.png) > [The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-haggis/the-worst-thing-you-can-do-to-a-filmmaker-is-to-walk-out-of-his-film/) [Paul Haggis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-haggis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/paul-haggis-5313_about_the-worst-thing-you-can-do-to-a-filmmake_2165649.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affect-audience/#itemlist", "name": "Affect Audience Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tom Waits" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-affect-your-audience-is-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/tom-waits-916_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-af_253507.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/tom-waits-916_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-af_253507.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/tom-waits-916_always-believe_i-ve-always-believed-that-the-way-you-af_253507.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.” — Tom Waits", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. 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