Audience Quotes - Page 13

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

I have this whole new audience now.

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think

It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.

Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice every day." He said, "If I skip a day, I can hear it. If I skip two days, the conductor can hear it. And if I skip three days, the audience can hear it." Oh, yes, you have to keep that muscle firm.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.