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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.
I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.
If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.
I don't think the audience for film or TV is different. I think they are the same people who go out on weekends.
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.
Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.
Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.
Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.
Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.
I want to be interested in the music I make until I die. That's more important to me than the size of my audience.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
So, one of the biggest things about YouTube versus any other platform is the built-in audience and discovery tools.
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.
I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.
I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.
I was glad to know that 'Caravan' was one of the first movies from Bollywood that was loved by the Chinese audience.
I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.
I think it's sort of rare in TV shows or movies to see people being vulnerable. That's sort of scary to an audience.
I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.