I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
~ Vince Vaughn
Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.
~ Kevin Feige
With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.
~ Tom Mccarthy
'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
~ Marco Beltrami
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
~ Michael Tippett
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
~ Steven Moffat
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
~ Marvin Hamlisch
The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
~ Marlo Thomas
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
~ William Hazlitt
I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
~ Fab Five Freddy
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
~ H. L. Mencken
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
~ Mike Leigh
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
~ David Mamet
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
~ Andy Stanley
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
~ Anthony Quinn
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
~ Kerry Washington
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
~ Julian Fellowes
I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
~ Kate Smith
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
~ Seth Green
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
~ Peter Jackson
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
~ Jan De Bont
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
~ David Fincher
Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
~ Clive Sinclair
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.
~ Bradley Whitford
Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
~ Freddie Wong
Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.
~ Paul Watson
