Audience Quotes
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All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
Shane Carruth
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim
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For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
Rick Riordan
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Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
Steven Spielberg
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Cate Blanchett
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It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.
Monty Hall
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The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.
Bill Oberst Jr.
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I always feel the audience is my best teacher.
Tony Bennett
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I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
William Sleator
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
Stephen Carter
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In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.
Stephen Sondheim
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My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
Michael Eric Dyson
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In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.
Davy Rothbart
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That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
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I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
Judy Garland
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For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
Boman Irani
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When people told the audience that Sam Kinison was good, he was accepted after that.
Norm MacDonald
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Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That's sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.
Baron Vaughn
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The great thing about sci-fi is that the fans and the audience are unlike any other genre out there. They are constantly looking for great content and good stuff. They don't care where it comes from, they'll latch onto it.
Mike Vogel
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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.
William Butler Yeats
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
Abe Burrows
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I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to decide my fate.
Ravi Teja
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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
Norbert Leo Butz