Quotes About Audience

Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

Being an actor, I feel I need to take up challenges and do different roles without thinking about whether the audience will accept me in those roles or not.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

I'm grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.

I can't differentiate between mass and class films.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

The audience has always been my best director.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.