Audience Quotes

3330 Audience quotes by 2285 unique authors

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long,… — Richard Donner
I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given… — Michael Bay
I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then… — Paula Vogel
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to… — Terrence McNally
I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they… — Takeshi Kitano
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction… — Martin Scorsese
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the… — David Mamet
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content… — Caridad Svich
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have… — Richard LaGravenese
The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for… — Robert Brustein
If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience… — Jim Henson
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows
Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their… — Art Garfunkel
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment… — Dean Koontz
There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. — Eugene Schwartz
I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw… — Shane Black
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. — Pete Townshend
The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down… — Eddie Vedder
I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song… — Johnny Vegas
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better. — Ray LaMontagne
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination… — Michael Chekhov
Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. — Nicholas Sparks
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or… — Arthur Miller
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write… — Tony Kushner

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