Steven Spielberg Quotes
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'
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The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.
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That set it for me that it was possible to capture an audience
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One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
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Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
