Quotes About Spectacle

You always wonder what's going to happen in a Brock Lesnar match, but if you see Brock every week, it's not as special.

In wrestling it is great to have good matches but the thing fans remember the most are the moments.

Mr. McMahon is a genius, and he know how to give the people good match from first match to the last match.

It's a showman's sport. I think the rivalry that I have with Usain and myself has turned it into a professional-wrestling feel.

MMA is like the Colosseum in Rome: the fans want to see violence.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

I'm not a huge parade guy myself.

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.

The Big Show was over. The public had been satisfied. The programme had been rather heavy, the actors not too bad, and the lions had eaten the trainer. It would be discussed for a day or two more round the family table. And even when it was all forgotten—the band, the fireworks, the resplendent uniforms—there would still remain on the village green the holes of the tent pegs and a circle of sawdust. The rain and the shortness of man's memory would soon wipe out even those.

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

All my films have been larger-than-life. And since I've sat on almost all the scripts of the films I've produced, I do not compromise on aesthetics and visuals that could add to a scene.

For the theatrical experience to survive, spectacle films need to expand their definition of what they can be. They need to be unique and true voices of the filmmakers behind them. They can't just be copying what came before them.

It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you've never seen before.

There was a point when dancing to music became cheesy after the boy band era of NSync and Backstreet Boys, but there were always those who craved that kind of visual satisfaction. K-Pop really filled that void, because it's so geared to spectacle.

Usually, people begin with very clear ideas of good movies, they begin with clear ideas about their characters, and then, as they do sequels, they seem to forget the characters more and more, and try to out-spectacle.

That's my business, show business.

Brothers beating each other up. Everyone wants to see that.

One day he went to a rally in Hartford for Ralph Nader and other Green Party candidates and assembled a spectacle that he called the Dopplerpus, which consisted of a rented carnival octopus ride on whose tentacles he and seven friends sat and played dirges on portable amps while the ride flung them around and distorted their sound interestingly.

The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.