Quotes on Audience

A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.