Quotes About Perception

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

If an actor can emotionally bond with the viewer, then it does not matter if he is handsome or ordinary looking.

It's not necessary that everything needs to be spoon-fed to the viewer for every story.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

As an actor, the whole process of shooting for movie or television is so artificial though the final product may be extremely realistic to the viewer.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as a writer I often feel that what really has happened is that the viewer has gotten to know the characters. It's a natural process.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Having been a football player, most viewers associated me with just that. It was tough to go from football to basketball, but what really helped was that my show, 'Inside Stuff', was personality driven.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

Younger viewers have a very strong detector for what's real and legit and what's phony or pandering.

Viewers are used to seeing us at our sternest and most serious on 'The Chase,' so it might be a bit of a shock when we let our hair down.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

But, in real life, I'm not a sex symbol. I'm popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don't see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

There's going to be all different price points, and you get what you pay for. There's certainly low things made of cardboard that you don't put on your head, you just hold up little viewers that give you this glimmer of what VR could be.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.