“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelievePlayActorsMistakeAudienceDon't BelieveWork OutI Don't Believe You Author:Richard Madden
“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.” ThinkingSelfMistakeAudienceToo MuchConsciousMaking MistakesSelf ConsciousThinking Too Much Book:Inception: The Shooting Script Source: Inception: The Shooting Script
“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.” ThinkingStatesCharacterAbleMistakeAudiencePositionPeriodsSmartGoldenCinemaClassicMisconception Author:Asghar Farhadi
“My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.” PeopleHeartFatherLinesMistakeAudienceDirectLogicBad Mistake Author:Arthur Rubinstein
“The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.” MatterMomentsMistakeAudienceDependsNo Matter WhatReactionsWrong Things Author:Bruce Springsteen
“When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.” ThinkingIdeasNightCertainSongMistakeAudienceReactions Author:Bruce Springsteen
“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.” WorldShouldPersonsMadeCharacterMistakeAudienceLoversNormalOrdinaryShould HaveHollywoodSaneNeuroticOrdinary PersonPerfectly NormalLead Characters Author:Gene Wilder
“Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service” WantYearsMadeMistakeAudienceLet MePublic ServicePublic LifeMy Mistakes Author:Richard M. Nixon
“I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.” PeopleNeedsHumansPersonsSometimesFeelingsChoicesEmotionMistakeAudienceStageProjectsFellowsAngryDisappointmentDisappointedContemptDissatisfactionExaggeratedContemptuousTheatricsAngry Person Author:George Carlin
“Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.” IfsKnowsLittlesMadeTwoProblemBigsMistakeWorryAudienceMinutesFrontsPicksSafetyNervesSitcomBig ProblemsSafety Net Author:John Cleese
“About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.” FirstsKindSeemsFilmMistakeAudienceParticularMetsAppreciateCrossesSellsVariousCoreViewersFestivalsThrillersBaitDistributors Author:Alante Kavaite
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway