Audience Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Recovery, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.

  Annie Sprinkle

  Art, Would Be, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

  Gail Zappa

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Information

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Writing, Keys, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Loss, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When we use the word domestic [terrorism], we discount its actual impact as political terrorism, which is, of course, political violence meant to impact an audience outside of the immediate victims.

  Malcolm Wrightson Nance

  Impact, Political, Use

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Insane, Kind, Wells

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

  Colin Hay

  Cities, Lucky, Kind

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• What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

  Boots Riley

  Ideas, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.

  Taika Waititi

  Watches, Film, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're tracking with a character that's running off a thing and diving off, I would leave the camera there and not follow them down, because cameras don't do that. The audience understands that. I'll definitely bring that understanding of keeping things a bit more grounded.

  Taika Waititi

  Running, Character, Understanding

  Source: collider.com

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• Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

  Kevin Keck

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Two, Perfect, Kung Fu Panda

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

  Davy Rothbart

  Focus, Trying, Being There

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.

  Jack Antonoff

  Heart, Sacrifice, People

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• Hollywood has to appeal to the broadest audience, and when it comes to most social and economic issues, America is progressive. Because of that, the messages that are in Hollywood movies tend to be, for instance, pro-environment.

  Adam McKay

  America, Issues, Hollywood

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Performing is always my biggest rush. The energy is boundless from a great crowd. I truly believe in energy as a force that is exchanged, especially in a performance situation. You give your utmost and the audience gives it back tenfold.

  Matt Sorum

  Believe, Giving, Energy

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.

  Ben Sollee

  Cheating, Philosophy, Community

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

  Ben Sollee

  Artist, Opportunity, Musician

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

  Sean Kingston

  Artist, Careers, Trying

  "Sean Kingston Badly Injured Jet Ski Crash". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.

  Jane Rosenthal

  Independent, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Thinking, Light

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about creating music. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."

  Will Oldham

  Numbers, Who Cares, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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