“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.” ThinkingKnowsMenLooksStillsShowsRememberGamesAudienceWonderfulTownsMadAdmireCablesBroadcastingMad MenAdvertisers Author:Leslie Moonves
“We do not see the PC as the leading platform for games. That statement will enrage some people, but it is hard to characterize it otherwise; both console versions will have larger audiences than the PC version.” PeopleHardGamesAudienceStatementsVersionsPlatformsConsole Author:John Carmack
“As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.” WayActorsGamesAudiencePlansAcceptedMy WayGame Plan Author:Emraan Hashmi
“The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.” IfsFeelsPlayFeelingsGamesAudienceOrchestraTangible Author:Frank Gehry
“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.” ThinkingWritingMeanMatterSeemsFallGamesViewsAttitudeAudienceHearingPoint Of ViewDullProseShallowRestlessFoulBegetsWriting By WritersAmerican Writer Author:Robertson Davies
“Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.” TryingCharacterGamesTermAudienceStorytellingBrandsAdvancingBrand New Author:Kevin Spacey
“I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and thats why Im here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with peoples passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.” ThinkingWritingTodayWantedSpiritPassionGamesAudienceSawsFansHugeInternetToolsVideoFingertipsGatekeepers Author:Felicia Day
“It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.” IfsShowsGamesAudienceCommandResolutionSatisfyingInvitesInitiateFollow Through Author:Stephen Colbert
“Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.” DifferentCharacterGamesAudiencePlayerPerformancesVideoOne Direction Author:Andy Serkis
“Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.” ThinkingMenDifferentGamesProcessInterestAudienceDesignMen And WomenFemaleMalesGamerGamingThinking Process Author:Gary Gygax
“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.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsMightAbleCultureGamesAudiencePlayerDiversityGenderSexualityDesignerEthnicity Author:Brenda Romero
“Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.” DoeRealHomeSchoolReligionGamesPoliticsGoalPrayerAudienceTelevisionFootballPrayingCreaturesUrgesAssemblyRatingAll AloneFootball Game Author:Garry Wills
“Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.” IfsWantWritingTryingWellsLittlesPlayAmericaCertainGamesFunBitsClassAudienceViolenceLittle BitExpectationsGunGenreHaikuRoller CoasterGun ViolenceCoastersComplete FreedomRoller Coaster Rides Author:Ethan Hawke
“It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.” IfsWellsAsksGamesEasyGoalAudienceFootballListeningBallsInvisibleScoreMisleadFootball Game Author:Gus Van Sant
“Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.” AbleArtistGamesNamesAudienceValuableInsecurityAppreciated Author:Suzanne Falter-Barns
“I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.” ShowsFilmGamesSoundAudienceMelodySignatures Author:David Raiklen
“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.” ShouldKindEndsGamesJusticeAudienceStageMediaMusicianTheaterMediumsSoccerHockeyOperaPitsTheatricalHybridEither OrPlaying Soccer Author:Christoph Waltz
“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” FirstsWholeFilmActorsGamesHurtAnimalBoysPrinciplesBreakAudienceDogIllusionIronicProvocationFunny Game Author:Michael Haneke
“The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.” FeelsMeanStillsFilmGamesAudienceIndustryLuckyStudiosFeaturesMassiveMore MoneyInfancy Author:Kevin Conroy
“Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.” IfsWantGivingWritingCharacterStoriesKidsGamesAudienceInformationAdultsHarderSuspenseBelievableDiscerning Author:Rick Riordan
“If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.” IfsThinkingWorldLooksKindWholeFilmGamesNovelAudienceTvsIntegrityComputerSmartBasesSmellWhole WorldProducersSpinningGraphicVery SmartGraphic NovelsBeing PlayedComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.” IfsGamesAudiencePlanetsDemandComputerSmartHundredBiggerBeing SmartJakeComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentGamesStuffParentCompanyBreakMillionsAudienceSellsDollarsMarketingBudgetsDepartmentCopiesLayersContinentsBreak Even Author:Steve Gaynor
“I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.” IfsFeelsKindMomentsFactsFilmGamesResultsAudienceMembersJudgmentExpectationsAppearanceThemeLayersSuperficialViewersTwists Author:Asghar Farhadi
“I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points.” IfsThinkingGivingI CanHardGamesSimpleAudienceTelevisionAmbitionRewardsBoringEnormousAhead Of The Game Author:David Nevins
“I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work."” ThinkingLittlesPlayCharacterFilmGamesQualityAudiencePiecesDirectorsResponseLovelyLittle ThingsWowImitation Author:Mark Strong