Audience Quotes

• "Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Dad
  • Show
  • Sesame Street

• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  

  Steve Valentine
  • Magic
  • Acting
  • Audience

• The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Audience
  • Preaching

• I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Identity

• I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Hard
  • Laughing
  • Wells

• It would be a crime against Twilight audience to go R-rated... Yet the rating is based on a much more mature book Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer. We need to progress and be more sophisticated.

  

  Wyck Godfrey
  • Book
  • Progress
  • Crime

• If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Films
  • Believed
  • Parody

• 'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

  

  Steven Blum
  • Audience
  • Gratitude
  • Animation

• I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Choices
  • Feels
  • Actors

• Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • World
  • Language
  • Musician

• If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

  

  Nick Park
  • Respect
  • Audience
  • Take

• The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the audience screams, you realize that your fears are not just within yourself, they're in other people as well, and that's strangely releasing.

  

  Wes Craven
  • People
  • Stories
  • Realizing

• 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
  • Audience
  • Harder
  • Description

• I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Theater

• I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Film
  • Touching
  • Animated

• I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Choose
  • Direction
  • Build

• I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as a result, my North, South, East, West directions kind of shift and go off base, but it seems like my staff as well as the audience, doesn't quite realize that this has happened. Don't tell them about it.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • Kind
  • Realizing

• I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Audience
  • Discomfort

• I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the 'Vogue' websites.

  

  Suzy Menkes
  • Opportunity
  • Commitment
  • Editor

• You can't force an audience to see something they don't want to see, no matter what it is.

  

  Roberto Orci
  • Audience
  • Something

• There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."

  

  Ricky Jay
  • People
  • Kind
  • Magic

• For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

  

  Richard Lewis
  • Years
  • Audience

• When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.

  

  Wayne Hussey
  • Winning
  • Audience

• When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Mind
  • Audience
  • Vacant

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