Quotes About Audience

You're only making movies for two reasons: Because you have something to say or because you want to entertain people.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I love making movies that I want to see made and I want to see on the screen, but I also want to make movies that people enjoy and want to watch.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

There's always a market for music.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

A lot of people who are marketing to girls are going to where they are, not to where they ought to be.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

This is not the profile of a man; it is the profile of a dog." Duels required the presence of witnesses, and large numbers of people participated in duels as principals, seconds, adjudicators, physicians, timekeepers or general audience.20

A sports announcer said: 'They're not booing - they're saying, Bruce, Bruce.

He is, professionally, an arbiter of comedy. "A sort of drama critic?" "More what you would term an umpire. The members of the audience are given a set of rules and the rules constitute the comedy.

To infuse a novel with a significance that speaks to many requires, paradoxically, that you ignore what the public wants and focus instead on what matters to you.

It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play.

Brands that help customers avoid some kind of negativity in life (and let their customers know what that negativity is) engage customers for the same reason good stories captivate an audience: they define what's at stake.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

It's this contrast that keeps the audience on their toes and paying attention. It's as though the story works like this: Scene one (+): Our hero really wants something. Scene two (-): But the opportunity to get that something has been taken away. Scene three (+): An opportunity arises that might help the hero get what they want. Scene four (-): But that opportunity falls through.

STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE ONE: THE CUSTOMER IS THE HERO, NOT YOUR BRAND.

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Stew Friedman at the Wharton School puts it, defining a "compelling image of an achievable future,"1 leaders captivate the imaginations of their audiences.

STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE THREE: CUSTOMERS AREN'T LOOKING FOR ANOTHER HERO; THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A GUIDE.