Quotes About Engagement

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

When it comes to viewer's choice, each film counts. Moreover, it's important to enjoy the work that I do. Thus, it is important that I am excited about the films I sign.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'

A lot of people don't like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I'm standing in for the viewer.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.

In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of sloppiness on the set or in the editing room.

You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.