Quotes About Audience

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Whenever I finished filming a movie, I felt my job was only half done. Every film had to be nurtured in the marketplace. You can have the greatest movie in the world, but if you don't get it out there, if people don't know about it, you have nothing.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

I have never heard any of your lectures, but from what I can learn I should say that for people who like the kind of lectures you deliver, they are just the kind of lectures such people like. Yours respectfully, O. Abe.

The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

People will bemoan the quality of horror but then they'll go out and support horror films that are lacking qualities that they say they want.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

I'm trying to do work that makes meaning and sense to me and the audience. But I have no qualms. I'm always willing to be a part of commercial cinema.

If a third of Americans' time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It's not proportional.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

'Let the Bullets Fly' indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.

Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!

My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone.

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

I'm a comedian. I want you to laugh. That's my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and get you to the joke faster.

Though the film industry is my primary area of work, television allows me to reach out to the audience quicker.

At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.