“A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.” PeopleWritingMayReadingNovelAudienceFiveHundredResponseNovelistsSolitaryThrilling Author:August Wilson
“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.” FirstsCharacterShowsDarkAudiencePercentHundredFirst TimeSpotsFiftyIntroducingSixtyLit Author:Peter Stormare
“I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.” IfsGamesAudiencePlanetsDemandComputerSmartHundredBiggerBeing SmartJakeComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.” PeopleWantGivingKindEnergyTermAudienceFrontsThousandHundredPerformancesExcitingNervousAppropriateNervesAppearingAdrenalineBuzzLive Performance Author:Jared Harris
“I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.” PeopleFeelsAbleNightAudienceComedyRocksFrontsLike YouBandHundredGet UpEvery NightCircuitsRock Bands Author:Sandra Bernhard
“You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.” KnowsGivingKindStillsI CanEnoughUseFilmCertainWatchesAudienceFiveMaterialsHundredMarketingSurprising Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superman had a family that developed, and it's only natural that Batman has a family of sorts that developed. I think it's a great way to keep the comics interesting and varied, to appeal to different segments of an audience, to bring new perspectives to it.” IfsThinkingWayYearsDifferentStoriesNaturalInterestingBehindsAudienceOne ThingPerspectiveHundredCastsAppealsDozenBehind YouNew Perspective Author:Michael Uslan
“Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.” GivingSometimesThreeAudienceThousandHundredProgrammingEntitlement Author:George Meyer
“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStillsRealDoneShowsSoundAudienceFiveTerribleThousandHundredSound Systems Author:Joan Osborne