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“What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”

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Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.”

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Author:Paul Mazursky

“I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“Hopefully, if I have done my job right, people will want to know and see more! There is certainly plenty more to tell. I would love to be part of that process of expanding on the lore that makes up Warcraft, but it will all depend on what you, the audience, think of our first film!”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.”

People Want Audience Fingers

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.”

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Author:Martha Plimpton

“I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.”

Author:Dario Argento

“I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.”

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Author:Noomi Rapace

“I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.”

Thinking Want Jobs Audience Anticipate

Author:Shawn Ryan

“I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.”

Way Want Might Song Audience

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.”

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Author:Todd Solondz

“You want the audience to be uncomfortable.”

Want Audience Uncomfortable

Author:Richard Thompson

“I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.”

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Author:Gore Verbinski

“I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.”

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Author:Dick Wolf

“We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.”

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Author:Duncan Jones

“What questions do I want my audience to ask?”

Want Asks Audience

Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.”

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Author:Jack Kemp

“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.”

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Author:Irvin Kershner

“There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.”

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Author:Michael Winterbottom