Audience Quotes

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. Manuel Puig
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That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and need. There still is a lack of value for what black women want, yet we have proven to be one of the strongest consumers in the marketplace. Mara Brock Akil
Women Value Black Marketplace About Strongest Consumers Supporting Industry Audience Still Proven Hearing Lack Artists Want Storytellers Need
I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am. Mara Brock Akil
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It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing. Marc Platt
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The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid. Marcus Brigstocke
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I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children. Marcus du Sautoy
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When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow. Margarita Simonyan
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That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something. Margot Robbie
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting. Maria Semple
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If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards. Marianne Elliott
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As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings. Marie Lu
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Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item. Mariella Frostrup
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Yes, I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer. Marina Abramovic
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One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever. Marina Abramovic
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You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' Marina Abramovic
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So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable. Marina Abramovic
Me Say Unbelievable Audience Artists Many Aware
I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself, but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. Marina Abramovic
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It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting. Mark Billingham
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I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me. Mark Frost
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In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time. Mark Goddard
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When you're actually talking over someone, it's as if you're just pontificating and they're not even there. And their body language - they're trying to get away from you. And if you're pontificating at an audience, and there's a break, the non-martyrs in the audience are not going to come back. I mean, they just want to get away from you. Mark Goulston
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I play shows sometimes, and if everything's connecting, I start blabbing to the audience about anything. Between songs, talking about things in my personal life, or whatever. But there are other situations where I feel a little closed-off. It's really kind of a day-to-day thing. Mark Kozelek
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I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience. Mark Lanegan
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I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing. Mark Sheppard
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When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are. Mark Strong
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For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them. Mark Waid
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