“The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.” LittlesWantedBitsAudienceLittle BitDecidedSurpriseCaughtSomething BetterAustin Author:Jay Roach
“In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.” NeedsLittlesCharacterOrderBitsLevelsAudienceLittle BitAppeals Author:Shawn Ryan
“Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.” KnowsLittlesPersonsGovernmentDifferencesAudienceTelevisionPersonalityChineseRatingChinese GovernmentAmerican Television Author:Tom Brokaw
“Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesSometimesFilmCan DoAudienceFieldsAdvantageHarderYeahMeetingsHbo Author:Charlize Theron
“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
“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.” LittlesArtMomentsLyingArtistFallAudienceCreatingFalling In LoveTinyLive In The MomentSlides Author:Lady Gaga
“Oh, it was a disaster, .. It went down like a lead balloon. I don't know why. I had thought the women in the audience deserved a little bit of something else after watching all those beautiful women. But I think they were shocked. Although the guys did dance nicely.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBeautifulGuyBitsAudienceLittle BitDisasterShockedBeautiful WomenBalloons Author:Barbara Lee
“Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.” IfsWayYearsBelieveKindChildrenLittlesPlayCertainTalkingAudienceAdultsDon't BelieveReachingTalking Down Author:Walt Disney
“The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They're very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I've seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It's a little bit like church, but it's very secular.” PeopleLittlesPlayShowsStuffBitsHoursChurchEmotionAudienceCryCoupleLittle BitAngelIntenseInteractionSecularTheatrical Author:Tom DeLonge
“There's something about the sci-fi genre that gets an audience interested in it, so maybe you can take some risks that you couldn't, if you were just doing a drama. It lets you maybe reach a little further and surprise people a little bit more because there's still that little safety base of working on that genre that everybody loves.” PeopleIfsLittlesStillsBitsAudienceRiskDramaLittle BitSafetySurpriseGenreSci Fi Author:Rian Johnson
“American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.” ThinkingLittlesCountryAmericaBitsAudiencePiecesPeriodsLittle BitFascinatedOld Things Author:Channing Tatum
“Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.” PeopleLittlesAudienceEasierToughBoring Author:Barney Frank
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.” FeelsTryingLittlesActorsVoiceEffortQualityAudienceWallLaughterShadowResponseBoxesTheatreScreensIntimateCharmPerformersApplauseMirthAppreciativeOasis Author:Robertson Davies