Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended… — Michelle Yeoh Copy Share Image
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree,… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
My audience is made up of two groups of people. The first group includes people whose roots are deep in the Christian… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I have to put myself back in the audience's shoes and figure out what they would know and not know. But, there… — Joseph Trapanese Copy Share Image
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I… — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make sure that the visual connections between the disparate elements are strong enough for the viewer to keep moving… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I choose jobs quite selfishly. I do them for me and the exploration you get to go on with a character... seeing… — Elaine Cassidy Copy Share Image
“The Joke...Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras;variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Waiting for Godot . . . has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present… — Michael Raymond-James Copy Share Image
If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become… — David Frum Copy Share Image
With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
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![“I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral message because that would exclude so many people from feeling that it was their film and it's important for a piece of work to feel owned by every member of the audience.” quote by Tilda Swinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f2/tilda-swinton-4434_audience_i-think-that-both-luca-guadagnino-and-i_1078876.jpg)
![“Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was…” quote by David Copperfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/96a/david-copperfield-2966_audience_science-and-technology-were-often-used-b_441203.jpg)
