Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a… — Lance Burton Copy Share Image
As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to… — Jonathan Glazer Copy Share Image
It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an… — Matt Bird Copy Share Image
Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced,… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre… — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell… — Isaac Stern Copy Share Image
I'm one of those YouTubers who doesn't daily-vlog, so my life may seem very open, but my audience only really sees probably… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
On stage, we get instant reactions from the public but they can't gauge whether we have modified some beats to suit the… — KK Copy Share Image
Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
The audience I have in mind is always me and my friends. And my two sisters. We're the feminists in my life… — Jennifer Baumgardner Copy Share Image
Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with… — Chris Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
What is more important today for the audience is to have different kinds of content. They like variety, they like different kinds… — Supriya Pathak Copy Share Image
To perform live, to get that thrill of the audience reaction is great. There is no equivalent of watching someone stand up… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
![“A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of a certain kind of procedure. Her doctor didn't want to do it because of her age. However, another doctor did and told this woman there is a joy of life in this person. The woman asked…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/nat-hentoff-1615_advise_a-woman-in-the-audience-asked-barack-oba_3075241.jpg)
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