“Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.” MindAudienceEconomySubjectsBlessingEconomicsEarsResponseIllBoredomTopicsCliche Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.” HumansHouseAudienceDoorsSubjectsConversationSpeechBuiltEssenceFoundationFormalChamberConstituentsHouse Of Commons Book:Great Contemporaries Source: Great Contemporaries
“I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my subject, and I don't want anyone I've had sex with to write about it. Plus, you're in front of an audience, and they picture wherever you're writing about. I'm 52; no one in the audience wants to picture that.” PeopleWantWritingSexAudienceSubjectsFrontsPlus Author:David Sedaris
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.” WayShowsFormArtistEmotionAudienceSubjectsDutyCalmExcitementInvolvementPouringOlympian Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.” ShouldAudienceAtheismSubjectsJokesPositive AtheismContemporaryTrendsAlways BelieveAppreciative Author:Rowan Atkinson
“Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.” PeopleWorldArtMatterChoicesFictionAudienceSubjectsThickSubject MatterRetainingThick Of It Book:Living by Fiction Source: Living by Fiction
“I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.” IfsThinkingPoliticalAudienceIssuesSubjectsDivides Author:Billy Graham
“I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.” IfsNeedsMadeSometimesMatterAbleFilmNextLosesAudienceToo MuchImagineSubjectsTypeMembersDirectGenreSensitiveImagine ThatSubject Matter Author:Steven Spielberg
“When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.” GivingTryingHumansLongAbleGrowsHuman BeingsAudienceGoneSubjectsSeriousCreditSerious Subjects Author:Prince
“In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.” IfsGivingChoicesIndividualPerfectResultsAudienceSubjectsListeningInvolvedPeriodsDramaTreatmentInstructionSympatheticFreedom Of ChoiceGreat Results Author:George P. Baker
“The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it’s almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject.” ThinkingShouldWritingIdeasMightChallengesAudienceSubjectsPrejudiceShouldersOver YouNonfictionImperatives Author:Pankaj Mishra
“You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.” IfsKnowsWantGivingMeanMatterStoriesAudienceSubjectsFiguresWhat You WantBiblicalSubject Matter Author:Mark Burnett
“In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where it becomes a subject of inquiry rather than being subject to conclusive interpretations. This is the gift I receive when I go abroad.” WantTryingShowsSpaceAudienceSubjectsPossibilityInterpretationInquiry Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
“Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.” KnowsGivingMeanHardWould BeCareOpportunityEnergyStuffProcessInterestDifferencesAudienceSubjectsDon't CareSpotsHopefullyLoadedMillsCombustionPotential EnergyKinetic EnergyWorking Too Hard Author:Jon Stewart
“An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.” PeopleFeelingsGoalAudienceComedySubjectsFiguresDeterminedDrawingComedianStand Up ComedyTrue Feelings Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.” ThinkingWayKindSometimesArtistValuesDarkAudienceLaughingFailingSubjectsMissingJokesFaultsWork OutComedianEdgy Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.” GivingAudienceSubjectsStageDesignPhotographySeductive Author:Taryn Simon