“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.” FirstsSaidI CanIdeasHomeReadingNovelAudienceWrittenCrimeDadMy DadWideBusConductorScots Author:Ian Rankin
“Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.” PeopleHas BeensShowsFeelingsEnjoyWatchesAudienceKnowingWrittenInvolved Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus
“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.” PeopleKnowsDoeTwoIdeasCountrySometimesSongThreeSoundAudienceKnow HowWrittenRocksStrangePopsContemporaryAppealsThemeFascinatedRock Music Author:Ryan Adams
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.” ThinkingWritingHeartHas BeensKidsAudienceTakenWrittenLettersAnalysis Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.” IfsEyeAudienceWrittenStyleProse Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingReadingAudienceWrittenPeriods Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsBookEnoughWould BeReadingAudienceFireToo MuchWrittenStageSettingSettingsScareLaptops Author:Robin Wasserman
“There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.” KnowsWayMatterDoneStuffPayAttentionAudienceWrittenNegativeCritics Author:Eddie Murphy
“You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].” KnowsWorldFirstsStoriesHomeRememberVoiceAudienceFireWrittenTvsSceneMessagesStudiosCupsShootingHarry PotterFestivalsPottersWorld CupText MessageHarry Potter MovieQuidditchGlastonbury Author:James Phelps
“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.” WantNeedsGivingWritingMomentsStoriesOrderReadingBehindsAudienceStudyWrittenPoetTheoryReaderExpectationsCriticalMeaningfulMake SenseBiographiesPoetry ReadingCritical TheoryMeaningful Moments Author:Albert Goldbarth
“It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.” ThinkingTryingMindLooksRealityAudiencePiecesWrittenBears Author:Matthew Bourne
“If we had written Tristan in the true vernacular the audience would have been very small. It wouldn't have even been Shakespearean. It would have been so Celtic you wouldn't understand what was going on.” IfsHas BeensAudienceWrittenCelticVernacular Author:Ridley Scott
“As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.” PlayCoursesSoundAudienceWrittenMembersMusician Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves of Grass" movie itself is so much of a platform for the lead actor. It's really written for an exciting performance and it really depends on the audience watching an extraordinary actor having a great time pulling off this feat. It makes sense to me as a director to act in support of that.” ActorsFeltSupportAudienceWrittenDependsDirectorsPerformancesExcitingExtraordinaryMake SenseGrassPlatformsPullingGreat TimesFeatsLeaves Of Grass Author:Edward Norton
“I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.” ThinkingStillsFeelingsCan DoEmotionAudienceWonderfulWrittenYesterdayRelatePerformersWonderful Things Author:David Finckel