“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsLawOrderLostGivenWatchesAudienceMiddleCrimeStructureEpisodesLongevityStarksLaw And OrderCenterpieces Author:Danny Pino
“To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.” NightNationsMillionsAudienceMiddleWillingReturnAwakeListenersCoastMiddle Of The Night Author:George Noory
“I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.” ThinkingEndsShowsSufferingOpportunityGivenAudienceMiddleBeginning Middle And End Author:Khandi Alexander
“I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.” WorldFeelsCharacterWould BeEarthAudienceMiddleAccessBarsBostonAvengersMiddle Earth Author:Ben Affleck
“You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.” KnowsIdeasSometimesPlayCharacterFilmActorsAudiencePlansMiddleMembersVagueArcsVague Ideas Author:Evan Peters
“There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.” KindFilmSidesAudienceFansModernMiddleStuckConfusedStuck In The Middle Author:Saoirse Ronan
“There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.” PeopleLittlesMillionsAudienceMiddleTvsEntertainmentApartmentHutsThailandDubai Author:Patricia Arquette
“At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.” ShouldHeartEndsStoriesAbleFilmPowerfulAttentionAudienceSuccessfulMiddleEmotionalIntellectualNarrativeDramaticCaptureViewersArcsProtagonistsBeginning Middle And End Author:Julia Bacha
“The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.” WatchesAudienceMiddleTelevisionBedInvisibleMiddle Aged Author:Samantha Bond
“There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.” AudienceMiddleAnxietyIndiaSellingIndianFlatteringSelling Out Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.” PeopleGuyClassAudienceStruggleMiddleCrossesAverageMiddle Class Author:Tavis Smiley
“When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes as I start to write the middle. That way by the time the screenplay is finished I have taken myself and my audience from a familiar beginning point through the story to an unfamiliar ending point.” WayWritingMindEndsStoriesAudienceTakenMiddleFinishedFamiliarScreenplaysUnfamiliar Author:Christian Keiber
“I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.” ThinkingEndsStoriesMovingAudienceMiddleTelevisionPhasesBeginning Middle And End Author:Carlton Cuse