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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.
One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
If you won't talk about yourself, at least compliment the audience. Just keep turning it back around, all right. Gush.
Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.
I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.
I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience.
I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.
I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.
The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.
I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.
Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
It's weird, I actually like doing interviews now. Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.
You have to just enjoy yourself sometimes, and the audience will, too. Not every role has to be 'The Taming of the Shrew.'
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
I learned from my dad that when you walk in front of an audience, they are the kings and queens, and you're but the jester.
I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.
People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.
Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.
Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.
Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.
My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
When we watch dance, the artists and the audience are part of a momentary collective experience that will never happen again.
The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.
I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party.
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.