“I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.” ThinkingWritingBookAudienceSells Author:Ann Patchett
“I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.” WantTryingFilmAudienceSells Author:Christopher Nolan
“Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.” GivenAudienceShareInformationSellsFinancialBurningFirmDeniedDocumentsFestiveAllegationsBiotechYule Author:Dennis Miller
“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.” YearsLittlesBookSelfStuffNumbersAudienceStageSellsDollarsSillySellingPocketsCentsPublishingMelbourneSilly Stuff Author:Andy Griffiths
“Making a fantastical world real is a bit of a challenge, for sure. When you're on set and you have a green screen you're working with where you'll pretend there's a giant lizard chasing you when there's nothing there. Being shown the images of what the creatures were going to look like and then having to react to them realistically without feeling like you're a crazy person. You kind of have to go for it. In order to sell it to the audience, you can't really hold back.” WorldLooksKindPersonsRealFeelingsOrderBitsChallengesAudienceCrazyLike YouCreaturesGreenSellsScreensGiantsChasingLizardsCrazy Person Author:Josh Hutcherson
“People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.” PeopleGivingWellsDoeFilmAsksAudienceSellsCompareAdsTicketsCapturedAdvertisements Author:Mike Mills
“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
“When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentGamesStuffParentCompanyBreakMillionsAudienceSellsDollarsMarketingBudgetsDepartmentCopiesLayersContinentsBreak Even Author:Steve Gaynor