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“Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.”

Thinking Feels Wells Happens Courses Audience Minutes Predictable Bumps Hitchcock

Author:Barbara Broccoli

“I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.”

Thinking Doe Guy Turns Audience Cutting Illusion Shock Turn-on Cnn

Author:Alice Cooper

“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.”

Ifs Men Feels Made Character Audience Gun Female Uncomfortable Villain Kill Me Monstrous Heroines Identifying Men Bashing

Author:Callie Khouri

“I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Play Care Moral Audience Theatre Manners Seats Censorship Offended Rip

Author:John Huston

“'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.”

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“In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition - but even more terrible to be frozen into it.”

Writing Said Ends Political My Own Careers Audience Teaching Terrible Tradition Sacred Reaching Load Frozen Virginia Concentrating Tenure Woolf Lecturing

Author:Michael Parenti

“I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.”

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Author:G-Eazy

“I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.”

Wanted Artist White Audience Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Hip Hop Artist

Author:G-Eazy

“No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.”

Feelings Lines Audience Celebration Spine Menace Shiver Hysterical Boiling

Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.”

Home Eye Courses Audience Degrees Mass Lows Billions Noise Stadiums Intimidated Confronting

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.”

Thinking World Mean Artist Audience Mediums

Author:Miguel

“If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.”

Ifs Audience Pops Selling Dozen Tolerate

Author:Tom Shales

“Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.”

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Author:Tea Leoni

“The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.”

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Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.”

Feelings Audience Missing Produce Performances Excellent Piano Sobriety Absorbing Pianist Hardware Coolness

Author:Donal Henahan

“I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Audience Rich Riches

Author:John Green

“The Who is now a brand, not a band; but it is a brand that is upheld by its audience, not an industry or a cynical moneymaking machine.”

Audience Industry Band Machines Brands Cynical

Author:Pete Townshend

“Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.”

Audience Music Is Absurd Thieves Collaborators

Author:Jeff Tweedy

“I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.”

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Author:John Edward

“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.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Bigs Levels Technology Audience Digital Brainwashed Digital Technology Favoritism

Author:Lexi Alexander

“The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!”

Ifs Sleep Audience Pauses Wrong Time

Author:Woody Allen

“I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.”

Ifs Want Care Names Audience Products Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.”

Needs Feels Hard Winning Goal Race Attitude Audience Achieve Succeed Negative Harder Starting Cheer Negative Attitude

Author:Brian Tracy

“I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.”

People Years Firsts Shows Audience Groups Iraq Chiefs Afghanistan Staff Joints Chief Of Staff Bahrain

Author:Robin Williams

“As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.”

Ifs Knows Doe Play Moments Reality Actors Can Do Audience Illusion That Moment

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.”

“In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.”

Thinking Way Care Order Audience Likes Dislike Villain Think Of You

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I don't know when the last time was that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They're looking at film differently. They're planning ahead in a way that I've never seen a studio do before. They're believing in a relationship between fan and film franchise, in a new way. They're more receptive to an audience, in part because of social media, in a way we've never been allowed.”

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Author:Vin Diesel

“I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.”

Trying Fighting Audience Taste Scene Members Annoying Sequence Pumps

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“My hope has always been that each record could have its own audience. Of course, it's awesome to have a cumulative audience for more than one record, but I like the idea that there could be a record that an individual might like.”

Ideas Might Courses Individual Audience Records Cumulative

Author:Will Oldham

“Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.”

Ifs Important Lasts Film Next Audience Conditions Directors Prize Awards More Money Working Conditions

Author:Michael Haneke

“Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.”

Thinking Giving Film Watches Audience Possibility Consumers Feds Spectators Spoons Participating

Author:Michael Haneke

“The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.”

Thinking Want Wells May Bigs Audience Experiments Disappoint Jaded

Author:Mel Brooks

“We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If we want to reach beyond the audience we have we've got to bring in more players, and to bring in more players we've got to bring in people who might be able to reach those players.”

People Ifs Want Needs Might Able Culture Games Audience Player Diversity Gender Sexuality Designer Ethnicity

Author:Brenda Romero

“What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.”

Ifs Thinking Play Lines Audience Comedy Honesty Serious Drama Supposed To Be Distinction Truthful

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.”

People Thinking Hard Young Audience Majority Wide Comedian Range Hard Things

Author:John Cleese

“Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.”

Want Made Water Decision Audience Expectations Filmmaker Crave

Author:Tom Hanks

“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.”

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Author:Prince

“I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.”

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Author:Queen Latifah

“The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.”

Ifs Lines Audience Comedy Drama Bottom Truthful Bottom Line Being Truthful

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.”

“I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.”

Hard Action Film Audience Touching Animated Action Films Animated Movies

Author:Steve Martin

“I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film is always what a critic writes, and the fun of a film or the emotion of a film is what the audience feels.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.”

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Author:Rafal Blechacz

“I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also prefer a very quiet atmosphere, and I usually choose pieces that are very close to my personality, my heart. I think the audience can feel it.”

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Author:Rafal Blechacz

“Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.”

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