Audience Quotes · Page 284

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

— Randal Kleiser

Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed.

— Thom Yorke

For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get…

— Richard Shepard

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by…

— James Carver

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged"…

— Dan Bejar

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm…

— Charlie Benante

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

— Harvey Diamond

I think the Control has really opened up the music to a whole new audience. I've met kids recently, kids of people…

— Orian Williams

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

— Robert Downey, Jr

But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if…

— Patton Oswalt

One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes…

— Jill Talbot

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening…

— Pauline Oliveros

The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the…

— Ali Wong

I have no problem with bands using participant financing schemes like Kickstarter and such. I've said many times that I think they're…

— Steve Albini

Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich…

— Frank Spotnitz

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I…

— Tom Hanks

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

— Jessica Savitch

All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get…

— Megan Griffiths

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the…

— David Mamet

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to…

— Valerie Simpson

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

— Jenny Holzer

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting…

— Karla Souza

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate…

— Lyle Lovett