Quotes About Engagement

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

People only have so much attention.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

With all of our big-hit shows - like 'Big Bang Theory,' and even 'How I Met Your Mother' - when they first started, you have multiple characters to service, and you want to make sure that the audience has a chance to get the concept, get the emotional arc, and really engage with the relationships.

'StarCraft II' is a really great game. It appeals to players on multiple different levels.

I think I enjoy my life doing multiple things, I would be easily bored if I did just one thing.

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Sam Kinison and Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I want to be of that ilk, I don't want to just make you laugh, I want to make you think.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

I've never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

There was a saying going around the theatre: It's a train, and you can jump on at any point whether you're a lover of musical theatre or a lover of theatre or a lover of hip-hop or a lover of history - there was a way to jump on the train.

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.