66 quotes found
“Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.”
“I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the ...”
“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”
“Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.”
“I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.”
“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?”
“When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.”
“I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.”
“Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.”
“As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you cant help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but as...”
“Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't...”
“I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.”
“There is never a bad joke, it's adressing to a wrong audience that makes it look bad!”
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.”
“I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.”
“You can't tell the audience well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience that anything they're watching doesn't matter.”
“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”
“If we really exist merely to fulfill Gods plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.”
“When you're writing, don't forget to keep your favorite audience in mind--you.”
“One forgets that part of one's performance is one's historyor sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; the...”
