The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.
The States still has the best audiences by far.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.
I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.
I like audiences to crane their necks.
The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.
If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
For 45 years I've worked without an audience.
My parents were my worst audience.
I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Had I just begged for an audience with Death?
When you're watching yourself work, you're not really an audience member for yourself. Even being confronted by your own image can be jarring sometimes. The experience of making a movie or a television show is this really full one, and sometimes you see it and even if it's a great piece of work, it's not the experience - i t's almost sad because it reminds you of something that isn't anymore.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.
There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.
To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
Point of sale is where you reach 100% of your audience 100% of the time.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.
I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.
I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.
