“Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!” MenSaidFacesMovingAudiencePaintingFantasticSatSpokesBrushesHoveringMoving Closer Author:Robert Genn
“It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.” IfsMayMovingFormAudienceMediaProfitBoundariesJournalismMotiveCredibleProfit Motive Author:Julian Assange
“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.” WantUseMovingRoomsAudienceIssuesSeriesComplexesDebateOpponentsThrustDiscussingSubtletyConvoluted Author:Alan Lightman
“Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.” IfsFeelsI CanTwoJobsFilmMovingFormArtistCertainAudienceBalanceStrikesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:Jack O'Connell
“We've played two shows with seated audiences, and two with a standing audience. Both were cool. Sitting is more mental, in a way, [but] after a while they really want to get up and move. It's very euphoric, I think, because people see what's actually going on. The energy takes over.” PeopleThinkingWayWantTwoShowsMovingEnergyAudienceSittingStandingGet UpEuphoric Author:Pantha du Prince
“When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!” PeopleChildrenMadeTwoWould BeMovingAudienceTelevisionDadLuckyTablesStudiosAcknowledgeCuteTiesKitchenSeatsEmergingDilemmaCrippledJeopardyExchangingExtraterrestrialKitchen TableFamily TiesYoungest Child Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.” BelieveMovingActorsLosesAudienceCryTearsTheaterBelieve In MeListeners Book:Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five Source: Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five
“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.” PeopleIfsNeedsMayIdeasPlayMovingAudienceWeekBehaviorPerceptionProducersMainstreamMasterpieceFringePromoters Author:David Bornstein
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it. I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture. It has to move all the time... It's not the stage. A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson. Their eyes need to be dazzled. The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.” IfsNeedsI CanImportantEyeCareFilmMovingAudienceStageLessonsElementsPagesPicksDon't CareScreensI Don't CareFlipScreenplaysLearning Lessons Author:Robert Evans
“What excites me? Had you asked me that question a few years ago, the answer would’ve rolled right off my tongue. Today, I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me.” ThinkingMovingAudienceUplifting Author:Tyler Perry
“Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.” WorldMovingActorsDifferencesActingAudienceReactionsTiming Author:Betty White
“I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.” ChildrenBookIdeasStoriesMovingFoundNovelAudienceSeriesEightLots Of MoneyPublishersCompleting Author:John Boyne
“When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesMovingAudienceLaughingInformationEmotionalSittingEdgesSpeedScreensHopefullySeatsThreadWeepingSitting On The Edge Author:Salman Rushdie
“The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.” IfsCharacterFilmMovingProcessAudienceInvolvedConcentration Author:Conrad Hall
“When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.” EnoughAgeMovingPassionAudienceEasierTasteTasksGood EnoughSatisfyingPolished Author:Horace Walpole