“I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.” ThinkingStoriesInterestInterestingAudienceAgreeLikesHopefullyCompelling Author:David Shore
“I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty.” KnowsWritingStarsAudienceKnow HowMagicSweetLikesRecipesNaughtyProvocativeDarren Author:Sutton Foster
“The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.” AudienceTakenJourneyLikesNew Journey Author:David Copperfield
“In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.” ThinkingWayCareOrderAudienceLikesDislikeVillainThink Of You Author:Ben Kingsley
“You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have.” NeedsTryingKindLongOrderAudienceResourcesLikesKeep GoingDislikeAestheticSensibilityNiche Author:George Lucas
“I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.” ThinkingLongCharacterAudienceFundamentalsFollowingLikes Author:Ricky Gervais
“I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.” IfsWantTryingSometimesAbleCoursesAudienceImagineLuckyLuckLikes Author:Francis Bacon
“I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.” SeemsAudienceLikesAdventurous Author:Chick Corea