“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.” ThinkingWantAudienceRiskModelsLowsStudiosDataSomething NewWant SomethingBusiness Models Author:Gore Verbinski
“Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelingsAudienceTasteMembersLowsOrdinaryUnderstoodCrowdsFrighteningImpressDecency Book:I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie Source: I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
“Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.” HomeEyeCoursesAudienceDegreesMassLowsBillionsNoiseStadiumsIntimidatedConfronting Author:Rowan Atkinson
“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.” WritingTryingKindI CanBookDoneStoriesSeemsMightNextSleepWalksAudienceEmotionalHairMonthsPeriodsOne DayLateLowsTradeDearChecksInstanceWanderGet BackUnusualMailNext DayDetachmentHighs And LowsItchingSleep Late Author:Daniel Handler
“Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.” AudienceKeysApproachLowsSuitsLow Key Author:Van Morrison