Audience Quotes · Page 28

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

— Woody Allen

“Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.”

— Darin Bradley

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

— Sam Shepard

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

— Michael McElhatton

I work hard to make a gift to the audience.

— Sylvie Guillem

You've got to write for your audience.

— John Ratzenberger

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Melinda Clarke

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

— Richard Strauss

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant…

— Bob Mortimer

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

— Jeremiah Wright

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

— Keith Urban

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

— Marlon Brando

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

— Jan de Bont

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

— Irrfan Khan

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for…

— Christopher Nolan

I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be…

— David Suchet

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart…

— Peter Guber

Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy…

— Camille Paglia

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk…

— Gore Verbinski

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of…

— David Bowie

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to…

— Alexa Vega

“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as…

— Robert Hughes

Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonious Monk of acting. He had…

— Trevor St. John

I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this…

— Francesca Jackson

It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that…

— Andy Daly

There are some audiences who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity, though. They want a film to chew their food for them, they…

— Marshall Curry

Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they…

— Mark Lawson

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase…

— Earl Hamner, Jr

On the whole, it bums me out that lyrics seem to be written as afterthoughts nowadays. Not sure why this is, but…

— Wooden Wand

We don't present our voices to the audience, we resonate our souls.

— Thomas Hampson

His [Donald Trump] audiences love it.

— Don Gonyea

My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities.

— Steve Earle

I have this whole new audience now.

— Katey Sagal

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.

— Diane Paulus

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

— Rokia Traore

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

— Dan Fogler

I really like involvement with an audience.

— Anderson Cooper