Quotes About Audience

... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.