Quotes About Audience

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

For me, I have to go out and people have to already like me for my promo to be good.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

The good thing about a jail show is nobody gets up and walks out.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.