Audience Quotes - Page 23

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

It's interesting playing something that the audience doesn't fully know.

The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the first time. You can change it by just a look or things you're not even conscious of, but it's such a full immersion.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

The more you defend in the face of a critical audience, the more you polarize.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

The feelings of being in the audience and being on the podium are very far apart. When you're onstage and something goes wrong, you can do something about it. In the audience, you just have to sit there, and if it's a disastrous performance, I'm the one that gets blamed.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.

When you're playing to an audience that isn't your own, it's quite scary.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"