Audience Quote by David Mamet Download Open image “As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.” — David Mamet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Audience Long Protagonists Want Want something
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it. — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience. — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Everybody wants something until they have a chance to really get it. — Demetrius Andrade Copy Share Image
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them. — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.” — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive. — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater… — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
