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Quotes About Audience

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
~ David Robinson
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.
~ Bobby Sherman
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
~ Norman Lear
You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.
~ Will Rogers
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
~ Sara Gruen
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.
~ Julianne Moore
At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.
~ Lino Rulli
You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.
~ Marc Martel
It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
~ Michel Patini
The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.
~ Casey Neistat
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
~ Johnny Vegas
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.
~ Harold Pinter
He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience
~ Peter Carey
She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf
~ Peter David
You are being aimed at. You are the target of our words. You serve as targets. That is a metaphor. You serve as the target of our metaphors. You serve as metaphors. ["Offending the Audience"]
~ Peter Handke
The audience agreed, Amen.
~ Philip K. Dick
prepubescent relative to collect your excellence-in-filmed-sodomy prize?—are met with bemused shrugs), "but I'm here to thank you on his behalf, and to say that I taught Jim everything he knows." [Enormous audience laugh and ovation, single spasmodic shudder from hunched ABC Radio lady.]
~ David Foster Wallace
moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.
~ David Levithan
We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.
~ David Levithan
David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it's done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder.
~ David Lipsky
The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.
~ David Mamet
The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.
~ David Mamet
It was the artist's duty to find the appropriate objects, and the audience's job to decipher meaning. If the piece failed to work, it was their fault, not yours.
~ David Sedaris
Making it worse, I had to sit through another endless preview for Titanic. Who do they think is going to see that movie?
~ David Sedaris