“The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.” GoalVoiceViewsAudienceComedyPoint Of ViewComicLatches Author:Chris Hardwick
“We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.” TryingEndsShowsCareActorsGoalAudienceTelevisionPaidShoesThrowingFrustrated Author:Sam Waterston
“My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."” WayWantFeelsHateActorsGoalEmotionAudienceWorstReactionsCraftsHate Me Author:Adelaide Kane
“What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.” BookDifferentSelfGoalAudienceNovelistsPublishersFormat Author:Jeremy Robinson
“When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.” NeedsFeelsHardWinningGoalRaceAttitudeAudienceAchieveSucceedNegativeHarderStartingCheerNegative Attitude Author:Brian Tracy
“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
“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
“My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.” PeopleWorldShouldSidesGoalAudienceRichShould HaveOnlineEngagementScholarlySeamless Author:Thomas P. Campbell
“An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way... An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience.” IfsWayTryingKindStillsPlayCharacterUseFeelingsBodyActorsGoalEmotionAudienceComputerMusicianToolsInstrumentsDrawingAuthenticityCartoonPencilsFeelings And EmotionsAnimatorAuthentic LifeEmote Author:Rob Minkoff
“I think everybody's goal was to make something that was really broad for a big audience, which was my goal too. But my main goal was that I wanted my audience to love it, because they're the ones who are going to buy it, and they're the ones who are going to tell their friends. And I wanted to make sure that core audience was really happy, because if they all buy it we have a successful movie.” IfsThinkingBigsWantedGoalAudienceSuccessfulCoreBroadsReally Happy Author:Shane Dawson
“My goal in writing for teens and tweens is to help my audience feel inspired and empowered today, to find their voice today, to believe that they can truly design the life of their dreams...today. I mean seriously...why wait?” FeelsWritingBelieveMeanHelpingDreamTodayWaitingGoalVoiceAudienceDesignInspiredTeensEmpoweredTweens Author:Deborah Reber
“My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.” FunnyLife IsGoalAudienceComedyStudiosHappyIronicBeing HappyTrue HappinessPurpose Driven LifeLife Goal Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.” IfsWayWantGoalAudienceRecordsBuying Author:Moby
“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
“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.” PeopleWantMatterCharacterStoriesHandsActionGoalWatchesAudienceLaughingSpecialEffectsCryComputerMemorableFilmmakerOver YouEntertainingAnimationMaking People LaughPuppetsGreat MusicGreat CharacterSpecial Effects Author:John Lasseter
“In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.” WritingTryingMindLanguageGoalNovelAudienceReaderToolsFinalsScreensTransitionPrincipalScreenplays Author:Philippe Claudel
“In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.” WorldTodayGoalWalksAudienceSatisfiedFeaturesSequelsToday's World Author:Michael Brandt
“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