Viewers Quotes - Page 2

• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Confused, Actors

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• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Political, Watches

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• I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

  Apolo Ohno

  Real, Athlete, Passion

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• All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

  Kevin O'Leary

  Issues, Important, Redemption

  "Canadian Reality Show About Ex-Cons Gives Host Kevin O'Leary an Extreme Makeover" by Etan Vlessing FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME PRINT, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2011.

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• Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

  Wentworth Miller

  Believe, Impossible, Prison

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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Jumping, Giving, Flight

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• I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

  Michael Haneke

  Way, Assault, One Way

  "Minister of Fear" by John Wray, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 2007.

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• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  Bear Grylls

  Drinking, Thinking, Suffering

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• Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

  Annette Funicello

  Crush, Children, Clubs

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• When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

  Bobby Flay

  Football, Weekend, Thinking

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• On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Hands, Police

  "The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

  Bryan Cranston

  Watches, Want, Mature

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans in the final of 'American Idol,' we would not be getting 30 million viewers a week. I don't believe the Bob Dylans of this world would make 'American Idol 'a better show.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Idols, Singing

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• The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Tired, Lost, Credibility

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• I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Winning, Awards, Role Models

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• If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

  Christiane Amanpour

  No Respect, Ifs

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• I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

  Dennis Miller

  Trust, Comedian, Hips

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• 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Doctors, Sometimes, Brady Bunch

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• Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

  David Lynch

  Photography, Different, Cinema

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• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Thinking, Lost

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  Jerry Lewis

  Baby, Thinking, Machines

  "Hey Laaaady: Jerry Lewis Isn't Laughing". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

  Michael Landon

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

  Jeff Koons

  Views, Moments, Artwork

  Interview With David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

  Jessie J

  Song, Writing, People

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

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• If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

  Darrell Issa

  Media, Fewer, Five

  "Don't look back" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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