“This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.” PeopleIfsHumansKindPersonsRealCharacterFilmHuman BeingsAudienceTelevisionLike YouPreparedReal LifeMediumsDecentFilm And Television Author:Christian Cooke
“Most of the network television audience now is primarily women, but I think that's because the shows are developed to appeal to women. I don't know that there are too many shows that appeal to guys anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but I think that it may have something to do with the fact that most development staffs are women.” ThinkingKnowsMayFactsShowsGuyAudienceTelevisionDevelopmentAppealsNot Sure Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.” ThinkingShowsActorsFunAudienceWeekTelevisionScripts Author:Matt Barr
“I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.” ThinkingEndsStoriesMovingAudienceMiddleTelevisionPhasesBeginning Middle And End Author:Carlton Cuse
“I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."” ThinkingMenFilmNightNextAudienceGoneForeverTelevisionTheaterRevengeBeing YourselfShyContractsPersonaEphemeralAdoptingFilm And Television Author:Cillian Murphy
“And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.” IfsI CanCharacterAbleFilmHoursLinesStepsAudienceTelevisionTestsEdgesFantasticPerformers Author:Cillian Murphy
“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.” BrainAudienceTelevisionSticksHolesViewers Author:James Purdy
“[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.” IfsWellsCountryProblemGovernmentRunningPoliticalAudienceTelevisionPoliticianTemptationSupposed To BeConventions Author:Ron Paul
“People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.” PeopleWellsMightLostFeltEasyAudienceTelevisionProfoundBotheredReadership Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.” PersonsRunningWantedFeltSpaceInterestingNumbersTalkingVisionAudienceNiceTelevisionDirectorsExcitedShipsProducersReally NiceRatingHelm Author:Taylor Schilling
“I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.” WorldBelieveDifferentRealWholeRealityUsedProcessAudienceTelevisionReal WorldDay To Day Author:Ronald D. Moore
“You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.” PeopleShowsRealizingAudienceCrazyTelevisionListeningBotherDedicatedRepresentativesFractionsTelevision Shows Author:Ronald D. Moore
“Sometimes not honoring your character makes for really good television, but that also can really upset fans. You have to turn things upside sometimes. As a storyteller, you have to know that sometimes you're going to let your fans and the audience down because you have to do your part in servicing the story.” KnowsSometimesCharacterStoriesTurnsAudienceFansTelevisionUpsetStoryteller Author:Azita Ghanizada
“I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It's like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their loyal audience base. It was an experience.” WayWellsDifferentShowsBigsEyeFilmAudienceFansHavensTelevisionProductsAmountStudiosOpeningComicLoyalSheerEye OpeningComic ConSymposiumPretty Eyes Author:Dustin Clare
“The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.” WorldWantEndsWatchesAudienceFansTelevisionNew WorldViewersProgrammersCaptivesWatching TelevisionComing To An End Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.” WayCountryYoungFeltAudienceInfluenceTelevisionHugeAppealsMtvMoguls Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.” PeopleAbleWatchesAudienceTelevisionTheaterThrilling Author:Marti Noxon
“I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.” AudienceWrittenTelevisionResponseStressful Author:Neil Cross
“I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.” ReasonAudienceTelevisionStudiosAdviseNightclubs Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being unique, I don't think Mark, Jay, and I really saw how special that aspect of that bromance was until our audience members sort of gave us feedback and let us know, "Hey, we've never seen a bromance like this before on television."” ThinkingKnowsAbleAudienceSawsSpecialTelevisionMembersUniqueAspectMarkHeyFeedbackBeing UniqueBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.” FilmHoursAudienceTelevisionComposer Author:Bear McCreary