Quotes About Connection

I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.

I am obsessed with my viewers.

I'm always thinking about the viewers.

The success of 'Rome' was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote.

I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.

I'm so grateful to have my viewers, and they all have been so supportive through the years.

For me, the biggest thing I've learned is how to be myself and the fact that viewers actually want to feel like they're getting to know you as a person. They value you because you're a reporter and you're bringing them new information, but they also want to feel like they get a sense of your sense of humor and what things you're interested in.

I've always wanted to connect with my viewers but there's only so much you can do through commenting and tweets.

One has to have the right spirit, attitude and make a place for themselves in the viewers' hearts.

I'm grateful that so many viewers have related to characters I've played. I think many in the audience see themselves in my characters or feel like the characters are similar to their friends or sisters.

Getting viewers to come back is the real key to making something successful.

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

It makes me so happy to know that we have so many viewers in India.

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing.

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.

The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.

We want to bring the kids, the parents, the grandparents and grandkids together, we want them to have a shared viewing experience. We want the kids to talk about it in the playground, dad to talk about it down the pub, grandma to talk about it while she's out shopping.

Gone are the days when people used to sit together and watch a show together. Today, it is all about become individual viewing. You miss a show, you can watch it on an app, while traveling, while sitting in your own rooms.