Audience Quote by Melinda Clarke

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

— Katha Pollitt

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

— E. W. Howe

You've got to stick up for what you believe in. If you don't do that, you're doing a disservice to the audience, because you're…

— Lynne Ramsay

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a…

— Octavia Butler

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

— Woody Allen

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three…

— Casey Cott

On stage I'm basically spiritually feeding all of these people in the audience, and making sure they're encouraged to connect with God.

— Colton Dixon

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's…

— Harold Prince

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if…

— Walter Murch

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

“Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating.”

— wildbow