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“In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.”

Trying Fiction Audience Science Fiction Familiar Futuristic Science Fiction Movie

Author:David Twohy

“A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.”

Should Home Principles Audience Conditions Reflection Doctrine Familiar Target Discourse Inquiry Ridicule Procedures Drills Target Audience Propagandist

Book:Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda

Source: Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda

“Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.”

Audience Musical Familiar Welcome Beloved Beloved Friends

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.”

Mind Persons Audience Mass Laughter Theatre Happy Familiar Guarantees Impressive Guarantees That Happy Laughter

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.”

Important Able Language Moral Audience Clear Important Things Prepared Careful Familiar Be Prepared Dogmatic

Book:An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

Source: An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition

“When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point.”

Way Writing Mind Ends Stories Audience Taken Middle Finished Familiar Screenplays Unfamiliar

Author:Christian Keiber