“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.” IfsWayYearsBelieveKindChildrenLittlesPlayCertainTalkingAudienceAdultsDon't BelieveReachingTalking Down Author:Walt Disney
“I enjoy writing for both kids and adults, though I think I'm better at children's stories because I was a teacher for so long, and I know that audience well. The process is no different whether I'm writing for children or adults. Really, the elements of making a good story are the same.” ThinkingKnowsWritingWellsChildrenLongDifferentStoriesKidsProcessEnjoyAudienceTeacherElementsAdultsGood Story Author:Rick Riordan
“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.” ThinkingChildrenAudienceEffectsAdultsPrimaries Author:Marcus du Sautoy
“For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.” WritingTwoDifferentUseBrainHalfAudienceAdults Author:Sara Shepard
“I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.” TryingMayFilmCertainRolesAudienceTypeHeroAdultsTransitionDemographics Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.” IfsKnowsKidsAudienceAdultsStandingBrilliantClapping Author:James McAvoy
“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.” IfsWantGivingWritingCharacterStoriesKidsGamesAudienceInformationAdultsHarderSuspenseBelievableDiscerning Author:Rick Riordan
“When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.” MindChildrenBookWould BeAudienceClearAdultsTeenagerMarley Author:John Grogan
“I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult” ThinkingKidsAgeInterestingAudienceAdults Author:Jeff Smith
“I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.” ThinkingLittlesAudienceAdultsHollywoodAppealsHollywood Movies Author:Joe Swanberg
“The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.” WorldChildrenImportantFeelingsEyeUnderstandingAudienceAdultsFollowingHis EyesFrequency Author:Alex Abreu
“I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.” SaidFeelingsLightUsedGuyWhiteRoomsAudienceSawsStreetsColdShapesAdultsVictimPerformingSensationsCavesFestivalsPlagueFringeSpineReally WeirdEdinburghWeird Feeling Author:Rhys Darby
“After starting a blood feud with Fox News, something no Republican presidential candidate has dared to do before, [Donald] Trump seems to have successfully undermine the network in the eyes of its core audience with perception of the Fox News brand among Republican adults hitting its lowest point in three years according to a new YouGov survey.” YearsSeemsEyeThreeAudienceBloodTrumpRepublicanPerceptionNewsAdultsStartingCoreBrandsPresidentialCandidatesThree YearsHittingFoxesLowestSurveysFox NewsPresidential CandidateFeudsLowest Point Author:Chris Hayes
“"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.” FirstsKindSometimesShowsKidsAudienceStreetsTvsCoupleDadAdultsRootsMy DadSesame Street Author:Brian Henson
“Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.” DoePlayStoriesKidsChallengesAudienceTypeAdultsAnimation Author:John Lasseter
“I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.” ThinkingChildrenTodayCasesAudienceToo MuchDangerTelevisionNewsAdultsHoneyCartoon Author:Jerry Lewis
“I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience” FeelingsRealizingAudienceYouthAdultsImaginaryStrangenessAwkwardness Author:Douglas Coupland
“The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.” IfsChildrenHateCausesBlackWaterAnimalAudienceRocksAdultsI HateFishesCrowdsBotherEnjoymentStomachPoolCoinsHandfulTanksSealsTossInfectionLodgesUlcersZookeepers Book:American Psycho: Picador Classic Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic