“I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.” TwoNightHoursAudienceWeekOne DayMajorsSchedulesDays Of The Week Author:Lee Majors
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered.” IdeasDreamChanceStepsAudienceMajorsMusicianMusic IsOnlineAmerican DreamSubmitDreams Come True Author:Ali Partovi
“Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.” PeopleLittlesTwoSometimesBigsRememberFilmAudienceWeekMinutesMajorsForgottenBizarreTwo WeeksBlockbuster Author:Rob Zombie
“The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.” FirstsAudienceLaughingComedyMaterialsMajorsExposureCriteria Author:Larry Charles
“My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.” KnowsIdeasPlayAbleActionSpeakStepsAudienceMinesMajorsTownsOriginalsContributionPlotFormatOriginal IdeasWilderOur Town Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed
“Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.” IfsGivingIdeasPlayFilmInterestRolesAudienceHeroMajorsFemaleFeministActressesEntertainingProtagonistsEyeballsBollywoodFemale Protagonists Author:Bipasha Basu
“I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHouseChallengesResponsibilityAudienceWonderfulMajorsDebateOperaOpera House Author:Wayne McGregor
“The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.” ChoicesLanguageNovelAudienceMajorsCarefulDaily Life Author:Dave Abrams
“There's no major label in the world that would have let me make video game music, then conscious hip hop. They want you to find your audience, your lane, and stay in it until it ends. I can't do that.” WorldWantI CanEndsGamesAudienceMajorsConsciousLet MeHip HopVideoHipsLabelsHopsLanes Author:Raheem Jarbo
“The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'” ThinkingWellsAudienceComedyTeacherMajorsCrudeCoupsBridesmaidsBad Teacher Author:Chris Pratt
“We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.” AudienceMediaMajorsTeethOur ThoughtsEmpoweredKeyboards Author:John Hodgman