Quotes About Audience

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.

I'm confident. I'm a crowd pleaser.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

I count something as successful if it pleases the audience.

If you take pleasure in what you're doing, certainly the audience might, too.

I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

There are plenty of examples of really well-executed shows you could look at and say, 'Well, clearly this show will have an audience; why wouldn't it?' And for whatever reason, it just doesn't catch on. So you never know going in.

There's plenty of people I don't like that we put fights on with. It's not up to me whether I like them or dislike them, it's what the fans want to see.

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

We played a lot of live shows, we just kept plugging away and playing music and people kept coming back.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

I like to tell people that 'Ballers' has something for everyone. If you are a football fan, then obviously, 'Ballers' is the way to go. The series are using real team names so that's a plus. If you have no interest in football, it's still a show about life, and there's something for everybody on that show.

I want to do content-oriented plus commercial films.

When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.