Audience Quotes - Page 18

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

I put a lot of time and thought into my work, which I see as a sort of respect for both the work and the audience, and I have always been very concerned that the materiality of the work reflects that.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

I have a hard time taking myself seriously. My band the New Pornographers doesn't take me seriously, which is why I love them. We can't stand up there and pretend. What we're doing is really important to me and it's my job and I love it, but I can't just stand there unflinchingly noble in front of the audience.

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

I think it's hard to convince an audience of some sort of chemistry if you really don't get along.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.