Quotes About Audience

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

There's No Business Like Show Business.

No one, in an open society, following the rules of that society, had the right to come between an idea and its audience.

It is true what they say: without an audience, a storyteller is just some guy talking to himself.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Does it really matter how many people tune in to watch us?

We need to step back and look at the more fundamental question: What was the author originally saying? We cannot simply read our own understandings into the meaning of a word or statement someone else wrote or said. And when we look at some often bizarre-sounding parts of the Bible, we have to try to discover who the original audience was and view the text through their lens, not ours. If we don't, the possibilities for confusion are endless.

Most people want to be entertained, not educated.

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

Sales and theater have much in common. Both take guts. Salespeople pick up the phone and call strangers; actors walk onto the stage in front of them. Both invite rejection—for salespeople, slammed doors, ignored calls, and a pile of nos; for actors, a failed audition, an unresponsive audience, a scathing review. And both have evolved along comparable trajectories.

Las ventas y el teatro tienen mucho en común. Ambos requieren agallas.

At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning.

I think what working in a short film online is that the response from the audience is immediate whether your short film or web-series works or not, it is immediate. You can see comments and you can also see how many people have viewed it.

I always try to make/produce shows that can be viewed by the entire family. I never want to intentionally make anything that I will be embarrassed by or that people of any age can't watch.

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

There are so many talented filmmakers, but they find it difficult to put their content out to the viewer.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.