Audience Quotes
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I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
Paul Mazursky
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Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.
Julia Bacha
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I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.
Norm Crosby
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My parents were my worst audience.
Richard Lewis
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I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
Wentworth Miller
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Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.
Cenk Uygur
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I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.
Rutger Hauer
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
Steve Earle
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You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.
Michael Caine
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I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
Sofia Coppola
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
Stanley Kubrick
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You’re just trying to find an audience who will love you and I’m not enough.
Hank Green
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When you look at the 'Roseannes' and the 'Will and Graces' - when those reboots or sequels or whatever you want to call them are well-executed and have a fresh angle that's relevant, it's a big, warm comfort hug to the audience.
Ralph Macchio
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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
Steven Spielberg
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No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
Steve Martin
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One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
Ethan Hawke
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For 45 years I've worked without an audience.
Richard Lewis
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
Steve Martin
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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
Steven Soderbergh
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When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.
Steve Martin
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
Harvey Fierstein
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There are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
George Eliot
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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
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When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.
Ethan Hawke