66 quotes found
“When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.”
“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for...”
“Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns.”
“If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.”
“Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”
“LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a characterthe news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of mediaJon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondent...”
“Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.”
“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person,...”
“To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-hea...”
“This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become something. It b...”
“Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets yo...”
“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages h...”
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention,A kingdom for a stage, princes to actAnd monarchs to behold the swelling scene!Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,A...”
“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I dont have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and p...”
“My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.”
“Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!”
“I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resona...”
“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]”
“The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.”
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”
