“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.” YearsKindPlayActorsSocialStuffDealsAudienceIssuesStageMembersDrivenReally GreatSocial IssuesStage Actors Author:Danny Strong
“If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.” IfsThinkingShouldWellsDealsAudienceIssuesLike SomethingDoing Right Author:David Shore
“The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.” StatesProcessUnitedDealsUnited StatesAudienceTestsFilmmaking Author:Brendan Fraser
“Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.” KnowsEyeLiteratureWaitingDealsAudienceFirePatientBe Patient Author:Ken Kesey
“Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.” ThinkingWellsBigsDealsPayAudienceBabyEntertainmentMealsBuyingTicketsBig DealParking Author:Kathy Griffin
“A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."” PeopleIdeasTogetherDealsAudienceIssuesGenerationsDyingFiguresScreensFilmmakerBiasNew GenerationOld Ideas Author:Nate Parker
“You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.” ThinkingWayIdeasSelfCharacterFilmCertainDealsAudienceGreaterMembersAskingDistanceServingQuestioningDiscourseArenaObjectivityWrong WaySelf ServingProvoked Author:Colin Farrell
“I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.” WantJobsDealsAudienceConcernedTrends Author:Mike Leigh
“Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.” WellsHelpingShowsFeelingsHumorMightPainStuffGoalDealsAudienceWeekEventsLaughterProgramDecidedHealBeneficialFunny Stuff Author:Allen Klein
“I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's helping me deal with it. I get to see the movie through the audience's eyes and that's really gratifying.” PeopleKnowsFeelsCharacterHelpingEyeDealsAudienceCome Up Author:Kimberly Elise