“The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.” ShouldYearsThreeAudienceDyingSeriesComedianThree YearsFrequencyOptimum Author:Alexei Sayle
“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.” WantLongDifferentPlayFilmActorsHouseActingAudienceMaterialsTvsEmptySeriesIntentionTheatreDistinctionTv SeriesBlockbusterEmpty HousesMore The Merrier Author:Ian Mckellen
“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.” WantUseMovingRoomsAudienceIssuesSeriesComplexesDebateOpponentsThrustDiscussingSubtletyConvoluted Author:Alan Lightman
“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.” KnowsYearsMayRealHardStoriesBigsDiesWonderAudienceTroubleOfficeSummerExpectationsWeightOriginalsSeriesBoxesDustSettlingFourthSeptemberUnlikelyBox OfficeAtlasSuccess StoriesLive FreeBlitzImpersonators Author:James Berardinelli
“People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.” PeopleWantGivingLongAttentionAudienceTvsSeriesComplicatedPlotAttention SpanReally LongTv Series Author:Kevin Spacey
“When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.” WayAudienceSeriesNew Ways Author:Nicholas Lea
“Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLooksMeanSometimesCharacterFacesCertainCan DoLinesAudienceStageTvsSeriesGet AwayYour FaceAnimatedPuppetsTv Series Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.” PeopleWorldWholeWatchesAudienceGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionInternetBiggerSeriesWaveOver YouConvenienceAmerican Television Author:Criss Angel
“I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.” ChildrenBookIdeasStoriesMovingFoundNovelAudienceSeriesEightLots Of MoneyPublishersCompleting Author:John Boyne
“With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.” IfsPersonsTwoCharacterMovingCan DoInterestingHalfBreakAudienceTelevisionLuckyOppositesSeriesAcceptedVersionsMoving Forward Author:Rashida Jones
“It's very difficult to have a successful series that can continue to capture and captivate an audience and keep people interested. Because the story, you've got to be able to continue to tell this story.” PeopleStoriesAbleDifficultAudienceSuccessfulSeriesCapture Author:Jaime Pressly
“My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.” HeartLongHas BeensRunningPartyAudienceFiveTvsLuckySeriesGhostMy TimeLong RunsTv SeriesGhost Whisperer Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.” ArtSoulPlayUseArtistChoicesAcceptingAudienceShareColorConsciousSeriesNotesPaintRejectsWorks Of ArtSubstitutes Author:Leonard Pitts
“We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.” GivingAudienceSuccessfulTelevisionMaterialsSeriesFormerRemakesSequelsVideogame Author:Dean Devlin
“I think a pilot is a pilot, no matter who's judging it, but I will say I am thinking a lot about how to tell stories for the series in a streaming environment where you can anticipate a huge portion of the audience will consume an entire season in the course of a day, two days or a week.” ThinkingTwoMatterStoriesCoursesAudienceEnvironmentWeekJudgingHugeSeasonsSeriesPilotsPortionsAnticipateTwo DaysStreaming Author:Frank Spotnitz