Quotes About Audience

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

I make music for people to feel happy with my music and the people that actually want to support me, that's all I care about. I care about the people that want the music. I make the music for them.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.