“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.” IfsChanceHalfAudienceSawsFairsShockedTwistsAlways Believe Author:Damon Lindelof
“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!” KnowsWellsEyeJobsChanceAudienceExcitingTheatreOne Chance Author:Christine Lahti
“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.” PeopleIfsWritingStoriesYoungChanceAudienceAirEventsTelevisionHigherNewsCamerasMtvBreaking News Author:Tabitha Soren
“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.” IfsWantFeelsI CanFilmFightingChanceAudienceMinesThousandDramaticBuyingTicketsOne Chance Author:Woody Allen
“The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.” IdeasDreamChanceStepsAudienceMajorsMusicianMusic IsOnlineAmerican DreamSubmitDreams Come True Author:Ali Partovi
“As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.” IfsThinkingWantEndsCharacterFilmVoiceChanceOpinionAudienceRight ThingTelling The Truth Author:Spike Lee
“No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.” BookMatterValuesChanceAudienceReachingPublishers Author:Richard Laymon
“Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.” WorldArtistEasyChanceAudienceProjectsCamerasFortunateFedsSchedulesSitcom Author:Andrea Anders
“To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesMomentsNextTermChanceAudienceOne ThingWeekHappeningsPerformancesCamerasFulfillingTake A ChanceCapturedNext Week Author:Lily Tomlin
“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.” PurposeSongChanceAudienceStageEmotionalSingingStartingPerformingConnectingPerforming On Stage Author:Naturi Naughton
“Im living as an artist, and thats a staggering feeling, its a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, Im determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But thats very hard to achieve.” FeelsHardFeelingsArtistChanceResponsibilityAudienceAchieveDeterminedLuxuryStaggering Author:Conor McPherson
“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.” IfsGivingActorsChanceActingHalfAudience Author:William Hazlitt
“I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.” PeopleGivingIdeasStoriesAgeFilmChanceAudienceScreensLove StoryHopefully Author:Shirley MacLaine
“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.” WayWritingFirstsCountrySongChanceAudienceRootsStartingCivicsStarting OutHonda Author:Eric Hutchinson
“Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.” IfsFeelsArtistFoundChanceAudienceAirNew ThingsFresh Air Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.” PeopleKindDifferentFilmBitsChanceAudienceTasksOriginalsHungryFinancing Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway” PeopleWorldFeelsPersonsFilmChanceAttitudeAudienceChangedFameDirectorsResponseInternationalOccasionsJapanRealisingFestivalsMy AttitudeFilm Festivals Author:Takashi Miike
“Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America.” AmericaChanceCareersAudienceComedyHonorClubsCraftsComicDevelopingAwardsPerformersComedy Clubs Author:George Schlatter
“Smart brands never try to appeal to more than their audience group. Assuming you're audience is one of the segments that watches, it's your chance to galvanize this specific group, which is larger here than anywhere else, with a bold new idea that can re-magnetize the human/brand connection for a new year.” TryingYearsHumansIdeasChanceWatchesAudienceGroupsSmartConnectionsAssumingBrandsAppealsNew YearNew Ideas Author:Joshua Rogers