66 quotes found
“Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.”
“Whats the use of writing poetry for your peers? I dont think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If thats who my audience is, Im dead, Im not going to make any money.”
“The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.”
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
“Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.”
“Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.”
“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Vronique. She'd gone once, twice, three t...”
“My wit is only as stupid as the audience.”
“The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didnt call them to be your audience, someone else did.”
“Assuming Sandberg's advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And lets be frank: if Sandber...”
“And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors...”
“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...”
“LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character—the news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media—Jon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the corresponde...”
“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”. I...”
“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...”
“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.”
“As a screenwriter - if you are completely honest with yourself - you can’t help but admit that your greatest threat is the audience, where audience is not understood as a demographic category but a...”
“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.”
