“Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldBelieveStillsDifferentAudienceMediaProductsHugeLike YouImpactFinancialOne WayVocalFickleFinancial Services Author:Max Levchin
“When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.” FeelsAudience Author:Juice Newton
“The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsLawOrderLostGivenWatchesAudienceMiddleCrimeStructureEpisodesLongevityStarksLaw And OrderCenterpieces Author:Danny Pino
“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.” PeopleWayFeelsJobsFeltAudienceSawsDirectorsToughSurpriseFighterPrincessAmyTough Women Author:David O. Russell
“I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsKindCharacterFilmAudienceComplexesScriptsComplex Characters Author:Jeremy Renner
“The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.” FeelsEnergyLevelsAudienceLaughingOne ThingMinutesSeriousConstantCastsTensionIntroductionBack And ForthEnergy Levels Author:Jonathan Sadowski
“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsWritingHumansPersonsProblemAudienceFairsLuckBoundsSuperiorsDumbHeavenlyInferiorsInterventionComicalParaphraseHuman ProblemsDumb Luck Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.” WantFeelsKindFeelingsFunRoomsAudienceKingsInvolvedGet UpHanging OutLiving Room Author:Kate Voegele
“It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMatterPlayMomentsAudienceSceneVery GoodThat MomentRadar Author:Carey Mulligan
“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.” KnowsFeelsTryingKindAudienceKnow HowComedyWheelsKeep TryingHamsters Author:Vince Vaughn
“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.” GivingFeelsFirstsHeartI CanSoulSelfRomanceJoyPassionEnergyGivenEnjoySecretAudienceMy HeartFindingsSingingGive MeMy SoulFirst LoveMy PassionInner SelfGreat Joy Author:Kailash Kher
“I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.” FeelsAudienceComedyScenePureChicagoShowcase Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsFoundAudienceDirectorsTestsTheatreRespondingScreeningPreviewTheatre Directors Author:Stephen Daldry
“I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.” PeopleFeelsBeliefAudienceHappenedCapableAverageComplicatedHandleComplexityWillingness Author:Michael Loceff
“I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.” FeelsLittlesI CanMomentsSecretAudienceAirSpecialNotesCurrentsBreatheGreat Moments Author:Arthur Rubinstein
“The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.” MenFeelsShouldTryingMindLooksEnoughCharacterStoriesInterestingAudiencePiecesDesignExpressionPersonalityDevelopmentReactionsPhases Author:Walt Disney
“I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.” FeelsWritingBookDifferentAudienceTvsBook Writing Author:Josh Lieb
“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.” PeopleWorldFeelsKindBigsAbleFilmActorsAudienceTelevisionTvsFlowActressesSeparationSplits Author:Cobie Smulders
“I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.” InspirationalFeelsCharacterPoetryMusicAudienceSceneExperienceMiseryMereTerrorCommunicateScreensDialogueLiftsNarrativeRealmsReachingLinksComposerReach OutGrandeurSound Of MusicGaietyBackground Music Author:Bernard Herrmann