Todd Solondz Quotes
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
-
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.
-
The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
-
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.
-
I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
-
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
-
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.
-
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
-
My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
-
In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
-
The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
-
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
-
I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
-
I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
-
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
-
I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
-
I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
-
The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
-
I auditioned for a community theater-slash-professional production of Oliver Twist in Union City when I was 11 because my cousin wanted to be an actor and I was visiting her and it seemed like fun. I was Oliver. I hadn't had any training, I was just a cute kid. There was an agent in the audience.
-
You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.
-
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
-
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.
