Quotes About Captivate

I want to satisfy my audience.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

I am very simple to enchant.

An artist's job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The goal is to blow the audience's mind.

I never want to bore the public.

Maybe the first secret is, 'Don't bore people.'

We never want the audience to get bored.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

My bridal gown. So beautiful in design but it was never sewed. So lovely, ivory lace, ivory silk, sheer lace back, pleated bodice and flared skirt never sewed. My veil, my train. (So foolish the bridal train, trailing along the ground, on dirty steps. What possible purpose, beautiful and costly dazzling-white silk so quickly spoiled.) The bridal design held us captive. My dear mother, and me. And so, when I was married to my husband it seemed to me a second marriage.

I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

Content that surprises the audience will attract them.

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

I'm a fan pleaser.

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

There is definitely a 'red carpet moment' to a bride's wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride - she has to fall in love with the gown.

I can move any crowd.

I didn't realize when I brought him back here that you'd inflict more damage." I said, once I'd finished the story. "I was defending your honor." Adrian gave me that devil-may-care smile that always managed to both infuriate and captivate me. "Pretty manly, huh?

A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.

Let us not teach them, but amuse them.