Audience Quotes - page 8

English: Only a total idiot would think that a major channel is working to inform the audience. The channel sells product, it must be packaged. CNN, for example, is a colossal ideological tool in the West. An excellent example is the situation around Yugoslavia. How effectively a very civilized part of humankind was brainwashed! The question is in approaches. If a consumer "grubs" stale bread, nobody will offer him poppy-seed buns. I'm an absolutely engaged person. By myself. I have certain political views. I'm not a journalist. I practice political propaganda. I am a commentator, and if one comments on events without having one's own position, that's an unhealthy symptom. (Mikhail Leontyev)
Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us. View quote
Mac Barnett
One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself. View quote
Matt Groening
I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums. View quote
Norman Wisdom
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it. View quote
Randall Munroe
A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not. View quote
Robert Ludlum
I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience. View quote
Robert Wagner
There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience. View quote
Simon Pegg
Perhaps it's good you're not going to write anymore: you'd have to start considering all those dull things like your relation to your audience, the relation between your personality and your poetry, the relation between your poetry and all the poetry before it. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. View quote
Sylvia Day
I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience. (Sissy Spacek)
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. View quote
Scott Turow
I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity. View quote
Timothée Chalamet
I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. View quote
William Landay
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. View quote
Howard Gardner
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable. View quote
Shaun Tan
I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience. (Berry Gordy)
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. View quote
Bradley Whitford
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. View quote
Brian May
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? View quote
Brendan Fraser
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States. View quote
Brendan Fraser