Audience Quotes - Page 35

• When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Listening, Crowds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm a believer in that you can't really choose your audience, your audience chooses you.

  Chali 2na

  Believer

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I had one request when I started doing the plays. My prayer was: God let me do well enough to be able to take care of my mother. I was able to do that 'til the day she died because of my audience. So, they've already done enough. All I ask for now is their continued support.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Prayer, Play

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.

  Grace Phipps

  Fun, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Andrew Hawkins, troublecity.squarespace.com. September 28, 2015.

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• I do a little improv in my shows. Kind of like our movie, I'll do beats and ideas of dialogue, but I think there's less pressure because it's a live show. If you mess up, the audience laughs because we don't really know what we're doing. But as far as shooting, that was very scary, trying to make a point and drive the film. It definitely helped improvising.

  Charlyne Yi

  Thinking, Ideas, Laughing

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• It's a pain in the ass, show business. And the only time that I really enjoy it is when I'm in front of an audience and they're reacting to me.

  Elaine Stritch

  Pain, Ass, Reacting

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I'm not speaking to an audience. I'm not writing for the podium. I'm just writing, trying to write in a fairly quiet tone to one other reader who is by herself, or himself, and I'm trying to interrupt some silence in their life, which is utterance.

  Billy Collins

  Falling In Love, Writing, Silence

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• My personal success would be that people understand what I was trying to do. It was the most palatable when I watchmen_7_mdid Dawn. With Watchmen, too, I feel the same way. The movie's ironic and satirical and it's funny and serious and that's kind of the same way I felt about Dawn. Like I really was making a movie that knows it's a zombie movie and enjoys that and wants the audience to say, yeah, that's okay.

  Zack Snyder

  People, Zombie, Ironic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Suicide, Husband, Drama

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.

  India.Arie

  Song, Emotional, Mind

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.

  Eric Drooker

  People, Want, Subway

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

  David Bowie

  Stage

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

  Mos Def

  Hate, People, Different

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Editors, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

  Laura Lippman

  Bigger

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Advertising, Eyeballs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

  Debra Dean

  May, Helping, Awareness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

  Gary Cole

  Character, Exercise, Historical

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.

  T.C. Boyle

  Wife, Important, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, School, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Imagination, Allies

  "Glenn Frey Tribute – Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

  Glenn Frey

  Powerful, Thinking, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 20, 2016.

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• I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Voice, People, Fancy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

  Charlie Cox

  Character, Emotional, Good Questions

  Source: collider.com

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