“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.” KnowsCoursesCausesAudienceNo Fear Author:Sissy Spacek
“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.” UsedArtistCultureCoursesLanguageInterestChristianityAudienceMaterialsGeniusTasteCapacityAccountsPaintIndifferenceLazinessIgnoredStrictMarbleIncompetenceTamedHaughty Author:C. S. Lewis
“An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.” GivingJoyFallCoursesAudienceIntegrityGive MeInnocenceSabotageGreat Joy Author:Selima Hill
“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindFirstsIdeasLightRomancePassionCoursesLiteratureInterestAudiencePiecesMagicMysteryHorrorShadowDialogueCaptureSeducingLight And Shadow Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.” WellsShowsThreeCoursesLiteratureMorningAudienceInternetVarietyCables Author:Katie Couric
“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.” GivingMayArtistSongCoursesKnownAudienceTroublePrideConscienceBoundsFolksTechniqueSingersGenuinePerformingTimingEntertainersFolkloreFolk MusicPerforming ArtsFolk SongsPerforming Artist Author:Sam Hinton
“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.” WantDifferentCoursesAudienceFamePerformers Author:Cate Blanchett
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.” MenWantDoeAbleCoursesAudienceSawsTelevisionSingersRelate Author:Faith Hill
“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.” ThinkingFeelsWellsHappensCoursesAudienceMinutesPredictableBumpsHitchcock Author:Barbara Broccoli
“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.” HomeEyeCoursesAudienceDegreesMassLowsBillionsNoiseStadiumsIntimidatedConfronting Author:Rowan Atkinson
“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.” IdeasMightCoursesIndividualAudienceRecordsCumulative Author:Will Oldham
“What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and different costumes, every week. people are really mining the ability of storytellers to tell a long form story that goes from A to Z, and to trust that an audience will follow that. If they miss it, over the course of the week, they can watch it online or buy the DVD. There are so many different ways of interacting with it. Storytelling in television is getting more complex and more nuanced.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentStoriesFormCoursesOpportunityGivenAbilityWatchesAudienceWeekMissingTelevisionDramaComplexesStorytellingDifferent WaysOnlineStorytellerCostumesCablesDvdsInteractingMining Author:Sarah Wayne Callies
“Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].” PeopleCharacterWantedCoursesSpaceAudienceDrawsBiggerNarrative Author:Miranda July
“The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.” PersonsArtImportantCoursesAudienceHigherServantComposerImportant PersonMost Important Person Author:Dolora Zajick
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.” IfsWantTryingSometimesAbleCoursesAudienceImagineLuckyLuckLikes Author:Francis Bacon
“Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.” FilmCoursesAudienceHarry PotterPottersYoungstersNarnia Author:Ridley Scott
“You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingCoursesSimpleAudiencePercentCrowds Author:Judd Apatow
“As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.” PlayCoursesSoundAudienceWrittenMembersMusician Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.” FilmCoursesAudienceConcernedConnectionsContemporaryAdvertisingBudgetsCan Not Author:Lucrecia Martel
“Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.” PeopleGivingSometimesHardCharacterDesirePurposeCoursesGoalPayActingAudienceScenePerformancesCoreSurvivorPersonal Character Author:Paula Patton
“I think a pilot is a pilot, no matter who's judging it, but I will say I am thinking a lot about how to tell stories for the series in a streaming environment where you can anticipate a huge portion of the audience will consume an entire season in the course of a day, two days or a week.” ThinkingTwoMatterStoriesCoursesAudienceEnvironmentWeekJudgingHugeSeasonsSeriesPilotsPortionsAnticipateTwo DaysStreaming Author:Frank Spotnitz
“When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.” ImportantEnoughFacesYoungCoursesAudienceVery StrongSinking Author:Martin Amis
“I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.” KindReasonBigsFilmCoursesAudienceTelevisionAdventureTvsHugeBelieverAppetiteSuperheroZeitgeist Author:Marc Guggenheim
“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindWholeCoursesAudienceComedyMaskOver YouAllowingSeverity Author:Ian McLeod