Quotes About Audience

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

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Pathos is sad and inspires pity, but is not very interesting because there is nothing to learn from it; the audience experiences mostly pity and futility.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

You must be able to say the sentences you write. And so they cannot be long and serpentine things that curl around clauses, caress subclauses, encompass extended metaphor, stop briefly for a whimsical digression and culminate, ultimately, in a long and rhythmic peroration that signals to your audience that you would not take it unkindly if they, at just about this moment, would interrupt you with vigorous and sustained applause.

write for listeners as opposed to readers.

The words and phrases you use must not only be "hearable" by the audience, they must be

Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh.

Selling to the right person is more important than all the sales methods, copywriting techniques, and negotiation tactics in the world. Because the wrong person doesn't have the money. Or the wrong person doesn't care. The wrong person won't be persuaded by anything.

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

At the height of his fame, he would reassure his audience: "You're not alone—give me your hands" [61], and then stretch out his own emaciated arms toward them, coyly allowing the tips of his fingers to graze theirs for an instant, before he withdrew, keeping their tantalizing dream of contact alive while remaining ultimately aloof and alone.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

La misma regla es aplicable a las historias que una persona cuenta en directo ante un público empresarial.

las historias transportan emocionalmente al público, de modo que éste no se apercibe siquiera de que está recibiendo un mensaje oculto

Por lo tanto, en cualquier negocio, como en el del espectáculo, si uno no consigue transportar emocionalmente a sus oyentes, los perderá.

Y esa tensión emocional involucra a nuestro público, porque se pregunta «qué saca en realidad de todo esto».

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own.

Si su público no se identifica con su problema, es probable que no les interese escuchar la resolución de su historia.

Haga que su audiencia se ponga en el lugar de su héroe. • Dirija desde el corazón, no desde la cabeza. • Utilice el factor sorpresa. • Las historias con éxito convierten el «yo» en «nosotros»: ¡armonice sus intereses! • Asegúrese que su historia les deje claro cómo se van a beneficiar.

If your audience has a negative story about you or your product or business, you'd better confront it. As famed author Salman Rushdie once said, "Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Once you lose control of your own story, you'll need double the muscle to get that power back.

The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—