“25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.” YearsWholeAudienceComedySceneYears AgoCrowdsUrban Author:Bob Saget
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.” IfsWorldYearsHappensAudienceTelevisionInternetKissingYears AgoAvailablePhenomenonSiteCablesTheatricalMovie Business Author:Michael Eisner
“If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsStillsMightEffortWatchesAudienceSawsYears AgoThirtyThirty YearsWatch MovieOld Movie Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.” YearsFilmAudienceReadyWasteFemaleYears AgoMy TimeNot ReadyWasting My Time Author:Priyanka Chopra
“I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.” WayYearsWellsSaidStoriesAudienceHeardSmartYears AgoIntelligentAssumingGoing AwayReally SmartSmart Man Author:Veena Sud
“I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.” TryingYearsBelieveTodayGuyJesusTalkingAudienceStageMaterialsListeningYears AgoMarkDiedThis GuyUpdates Author:Hal Holbrook
“In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.” PeopleYearsKidsCitiesAudienceStageNew YorkProjectsYears AgoNew York CityThank GodPeterYiddishStaging Author:Maurice Sendak
“Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.” WorldYearsHas BeensHandsLastsAsksRealizingAnswersRoomsCasesAudienceHavensChangedYears AgoDataThings Have ChangedHomogeneous Author:Keith Devlin
“Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsArtFilmFormAudienceTelevisionYears AgoTwentiesThirtyDocumentariesDistributionTheatricalThirty YearsInterveningDocumentary Films Author:Errol Morris
“If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.” PeopleIfsYearsWould BeFilmAudienceClearYears AgoThirtyDocumentariesThirty YearsParodyDocumentary Films Author:Errol Morris
“As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.” WantYearsFilmNightSpaceViewsWatchesAudienceFourExampleYears AgoTheaterLondonFilmmakerSeatsStanleyOdysseySpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Michael Mann
“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.” InspirationalYearsSeemsWould BeTodayAudienceRocksNew YorkStudentsStrangeYears AgoMedicineDanceMedicalFiftyTribesBostonFestivalsAtlantaSavvyBiodegradableMedical Knowledge Author:Lewis Thomas
“Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.” YearsStoriesSongReadingAudienceTaughtYears AgoPerformancesInstinctConcertsPaceTranslatePacing Author:Jimmy Buffett