Audience Quotes
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Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
Genevieve Taggard
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I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.
David Bowie
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The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.
George Stevens
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You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.
Colin Callender
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There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.
Saoirse Ronan
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Very rarely I create things and feel like I don't want to recreate them in a live setting. It's a completely different world, but at the same time that's where I've always come from. Enjoying that give-and-take from a live audience, there's a large part of me that's looking forward to it, and creating that relationship again.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Know yourself -- and know your audience.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.
Steven Spielberg
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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
Tom Hanks
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I have been very cautious about the films that I do. I hope to always entertain my audience. The day I am not able to do that, I will quit acting.
R. Madhavan
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
Hilary Mantel
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You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
Judy Holliday
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I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read aloud with myself as the audience, and gave voice to another's words.
Teju Cole
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Thank you all for being a fantastic audience! I loved it and I’m so proud of – and deeply grateful to.
Mark Shaw
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Because I'm a filmmaker at heart, I know a villain can't be too humanized and the audience can't empathize with him too much.
Sharlto Copley
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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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There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
Tom Conti
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You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.
Harry Shearer
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I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.
Ray Bradbury
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As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
Juan Antonio Bayona
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In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.
John Prine
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I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
Simon McBurney
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
Sylvester McCoy