“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.” IfsI CanReasonShowsTurnsBeliefAudienceWeekTelevisionTvsFollowingEndlessThings To DoShakesInsecurityNo ReasonTelevision Shows Author:Chuck Lorre
“RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.” WayBelieveValuesTurnsChallengesAudienceFiguresPossibilityInspireWillingUniqueCompellingInspire OthersPossibility Of Change Author:Frances O'Grady
“When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.” KnowsMenYearsLooksChildrenShowsDreamTurnsGrowsPoorAudienceGoneGrowing UpFootballTvsGrewMarriedGrew UpResearchBlessedStudiosSexyDrunkAmerican DreamTv ShowsShockedLook At MeDivorcedDemographicsTurn OffTrue To Myself Author:Pamela Anderson
“Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.” ThinkingIdeasHardDoneStoriesTurnsLeftEasyAudienceRiskLosingTwistsTurn-on Author:Damon Lindelof
“I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.” FactsTurnsPleasureAudienceBeing TruePredictionsGore Author:Al Gore
“I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.” MatterPlayCharacterAbleActionTurnsAudienceEgoLosing Author:Neil Simon
“If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.” IfsThinkingWantTurnsAsksAudienceSuccessfulMaterialsRuinedTurn Off Author:Lynn Nottage
“I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.” ThinkingDoeGuyTurnsAudienceCuttingIllusionShockTurn-onCnn Author:Alice Cooper
“When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.” PeopleNeedsLooksMayLongTwoEndsRunningTurnsSidesRealizingAudienceMetaphorLong RunsTwo Sides Author:Deborah Tannen
“It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.” LittlesPersonsDoePlayAbleGuyTurnsInterestingRolesAudienceParticularEngagedWheelsBad GuysCogs Author:Jimmy Smits
“At a certain point the audience shouldn't worry about catching every word and understanding every twist and turn, because at a certain point that's pretty much impossible.” CertainTurnsUnderstandingWorryAudienceImpossibleTwistsCatchingTwists And Turns Author:David Cronenberg
“You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.” TurnsFunAudiencePlayerAmountComputerEnormousStorytellerOld Days Author:Douglas Adams
“The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.” IfsWayPersonsStoriesTurnsLiteratureFictionAudienceToo MuchFansScience FictionLaysAverageDetailsRelyShort StoryTranslateLifelongAverage PersonDensityOpaque Author:James Cameron
“I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.” PlayTurnsActorsAudienceComedySceneTheaterMusicalElizabethan Author:Christopher Walken
“Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.” KnowsFeelsTryingSometimesDoneTurnsCausesAudienceKnow HowImpossibleStageDrainedTrying Everything Author:Charlyne Yi
“There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.” WellsReasonLightMightFilmTurnsAudienceRadioDialogueTitlesVisualsStimulation Author:Robert Altman
“I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they just couldn't do it. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. But they lost those crucial years of learning to turn any audience into your audience.” WayYearsTurnsLostAudienceEasierBattleVisibleGet BackCrucialSitcomLots Of Friends Author:Patton Oswalt
“Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!” IfsCareTurnsPassionForgetAudienceIssuesSticksObviousGoldenEnthusiasmSpeakersConventionalTopicsForget ItTurn-onGolden RuleLukewarmVests Author:Tom Peters