Audience Quotes - Page 26

• The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

  James Frain

  Color, Trying, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Stories, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Crazy, People, Listening

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.

  Naturi Naughton

  Song, Singing, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

  Paula Patton

  Giving, Sticks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really discovered who Danny McBride was, as an actor. When I say we, I mean me and a crew and a small audience that would hit the art house. He'd never acted before, and it was a really refreshing, eye-opening experience to watch him unleash, in front of the camera, all this comedic potential that we knew he had, as a human being and as the guy doing keg-stands at the party.

  David Gordon Green

  Girl, Art, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• When you watch an audience watching my movies, you realize that nobody laughs at the same time. Some people enjoy a beat, and then another group of people are laughing at a sight gag, and then someone laughs where nobody laughs before. They're not timed like a comedy. You're not supposed to laugh at every joke. You decide.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Sight, Laughing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film.

  Jessica Chastain

  Cheer, Years, Great Year

  "Jessica Chastain denies Oscar feud with Jennifer Lawrence" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  Doris Day

  Average, Cameras, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

  Dale Carnegie

  Eye, Looks, Ifs

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Speech, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Night, Higher Ground, Given

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• My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Years

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• At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

  Zig Ziglar

  Fun, Attention, Bob

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• Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

  Johnny Cash

  Prisoner, Entertainers

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• It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

  Hugh Jackman

  Play, Trying, Roles

  "Hugh Jackman talks about how he gets into Wolverine shape". Interview with James Fell, www.latimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• I think you've got to take the risks. There's no point playing it safe, because either you'll get bored or the audiences will get bored. Sometimes, you're going to make mistakes, and that's fine, but you have to take the risks. I think Pirates is one of the prime examples of that with Johnny Depp's performance, and part of the reason that people love it so much is that you watch it and go, "Gutsy, really gutsy!"

  Keira Knightley

  Mistake, Thinking, Bored

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• I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Growth, Important

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.

  Bryan Singer

  Giving, Shooting, Action

  "Bryan Singer Talks Big Visual Effects, 3D, Bringing a Fairy Tale to Life on a Grand Scale, and More on the Set of JACK THE GIANT SLAYER". Group interview, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• No matter what, I will always choose practical FX over digital ones. Blood spray pumps and squibs go a long way in convincing the audience that the carnage on screen happens right there, in a manner that digital have not achieved.

  Timo Tjahjanto

  Blood, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I love watching a movie that is smart, that makes me think, that includes me as an audience member, and I especially love it when I know that the people that I'm working with also do that.

  Rosario Dawson

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "Rosario Dawson Talks TRANCE, Working with Danny Boyle, Playing a Female at the Center of a Male Dominated Story & a Nude Scene with James McAvoy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

  Miranda Lambert

  Performers

  Source: www.today.com

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• One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody was watching it. Now that people have started watching it, they get ahead of us. We've all started really guarding the material, just to make it fun for the audience.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, People, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Important, Want, Ifs

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Form, Function, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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