“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.” NeedsLittlesCharacterOrderBitsLevelsAudienceLittle BitAppeals Author:Shawn Ryan
“The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.” FeelsEnergyLevelsAudienceLaughingOne ThingMinutesSeriousConstantCastsTensionIntroductionBack And ForthEnergy Levels Author:Jonathan Sadowski
“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.” IfsShouldPoliticalAbilityLevelsPowerfulAudienceEconomyMediaFieldsSourceInternetShould HaveInnovationCustomersCorporationsEnginesDiscourseSmall BusinessPlaying FieldsForumsBloggersPolitical DiscourseLevel Playing Field Author:Al Franken
“The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in... just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.” IdeasDifferentWholeEnjoyLevelsQualityAudienceDifferent Levels Author:Dwayne Johnson
“The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.” ShouldWritingStoriesHappensFightingLevelsNovelAudienceBenefitsAllowingShort StoryDragMonetary Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan
“I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.” PeopleIfsKnowsAbleEnjoyLevelsAudienceFansDirectDialogueStorytellerEntertainersCognizant Author:Elizabeth Banks
“From my vantage point in writing a story, I can't and don't and have no interest in thinking about the level of sophistication of the audience. I can only think about what interests me, and maybe what I would want to see if I were watching the movie. To me, that's the key to writing something that's not pandering.” IfsThinkingWantWritingI CanStoriesInterestLevelsAudienceKeysSophisticationVantage Point Author:Charlie Kaufman
“My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.” ThinkingWellsHas BeensBigsLevelsTechnologyAudienceDigitalBrainwashedDigital TechnologyFavoritism Author:Lexi Alexander
“I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.” ThinkingGivingTryingWellsDoeImportantMightFilmMy OwnLevelsAudienceCommunicationTexture Author:Alan J. Pakula
“When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHas BeensCertainLevelsQualityAudienceGroupsPressureBarsSunsetSunriseSmall GroupsBefore SunsetBefore Sunrise Author:Ethan Hawke
“Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.” KindInterestLevelsAudienceNewsExpensiveCategoriesLowest Author:John Maxwell Hamilton
“A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.” PeopleIfsLooksMeanPersonsRealDreamRunningNextDarkLevelsAudienceHappeningsAdvantageTerrorScaryAtmosphereVisualsNightmareFinding YourselfPanicGood Movie Author:Stephen King
“When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.” PeopleIfsWorldWellsArtRealizingLevelsAudiencePiecesStreetsDangerousInternetPhotographRebelLocationExposureProfileArt WorldHigh ProfileStreet ArtCache Author:Shepard Fairey
“Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better.” WholeAmericaLevelsAudienceTakenMediaMassTrashMass Media Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.” WholeAbleLevelsAudienceCenturyMusicianCommunicatePerformersNineteenth Century Author:David Finckel
“When you look at the current state of reality TV, at least on the mainstream level, the shows that tend to be more successful have been around for a while. It's difficult today to show the audience something they haven't seen before, and I think that's what tends to be the secret to any great, big reality hit.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensStatesShowsBigsRealityTodayDifficultLevelsSecretAudienceSuccessfulHavensTvsCurrentsMainstreamReality Tv Author:Dan Cutforth