Baron Vaughn Quotes
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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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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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I have to grow with my audience.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
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You have to be different, great or first.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
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Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
