“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.” NeedsHumansSometimesUsePoetryLosesAudienceMysteryInvolvedEssentialsWaveAppealsBeing Human Author:Edward Hirsch
“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindFirstsIdeasLightRomancePassionCoursesLiteratureInterestAudiencePiecesMagicMysteryHorrorShadowDialogueCaptureSeducingLight And Shadow Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsDoeAudienceMysterySurprise Author:Alan Arkin
“If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!” IfsKnowsDoeActorsBehindsAudienceComedyDoorsMystery Author:Melvin Helitzer
“Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".” KnowsEndsPoliticalAudienceComedyMysteryDecadesBackgroundsTypicalPredictable Author:Isla Fisher
“There's always a crisis somewhere, and you get the satisfaction of solving the problem. And then, there's always the mystery of whether a program will work or not, and waiting for the reviews or seeing what the audience figures are.” ProblemWaitingAudienceSeeingMysteryFiguresProgramCrisisSatisfactionReviews Author:Rebecca Eaton
“I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantCertainStuffAudienceToo MuchMysteryDirectorsShould HaveBoringInterpretationNot InterestedCommentary Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“There's no passive success on radio. Well, in radio, one of the ways in which you engage people and make them active listeners and have them glued so that they don't want to do anything else, you have to find ways to incorporate this mystery called the theater of the mind. And it's the one ingredient that radio has that television does not that if used properly, if perfected and learned and executed properly, it can have a much greater impact than TV because it can create a much more intimate, direct connection with the audience.” PeopleMindAudienceMysteryDirectIntimatePassive Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You never know how things work and what exactly is going to grab an audience. Sometimes even the best material and the best collection of people interpreting that material just for some reason doesn't fly with people. There are a lot of TV shows or movies that maybe aren't as good as others that do work when it comes to finding an audience. It's a mystery, that whole thing. If somebody figured it out, this would be quite a great industry.” PeopleSometimesReasonAudienceMystery Author:Timothy Hutton
“Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.” WorldWayHumansAudienceMagicMysteryFragileResponding Book:Interview with the Vampire Source: Interview with the Vampire
“I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.” ThinkingArtLyingArtistAudienceMysteryProfit Author:Ursula K. Le Guin