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• It's not really a good sign when your audience applauds Satan.

  Jon Stewart

  Satan

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• [Doogal] wasn't even animated. It was still and the audience had to move.

  Jon Stewart

  Moving, Animated, Stills

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• The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.

  Philip French

  Stars, Two, People

  "The Pink Panther" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.

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• If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

  Pauline Kael

  Years, People, Effort

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.

  Peter Greenaway

  Attitude, Ambition, Character

  "Watching Water". Catalogue of the Exhibition in Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 1993.

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• There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

  A. P. Herbert

  Play, Symphony, Littles

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• You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.

  William Boughton

  Feels, Ifs

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• I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

  Chris Rock

  Stars, People, Musician

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• The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  "Director Asghar Farhadi Talks THE PAST, His Inspiration for the Story, Filming a Different Side of Paris, the Oscar Controversy, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

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• What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

  Julian Fellowes

  Years, Giving, Auditions

  "Screenwriter Julian Fellowes Talks ROMEO & JULIET, Adapting Shakespeare, DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four (and Five), GILDED AGE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2013.

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• I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Views, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.

  Len Wein

  Writing, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Strong, Feelings, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

  Sarah Paulson

  Differences, Feelings, Firsts

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1, 2014.

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• I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

  Sarah Paulson

  Reactions, Immediacy, Knows

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with Julianne Moore.

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• I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he or she is sitting at the back of a theater listening to the audience laugh. That sound of laughter is so sweet to a comedy director and that's exactly how a horror film feels when you hear the audience scream.

  Leigh Whannell

  Sweet, Laughter, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

  RJ Mitte

  Character, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

  Emmylou Harris

  Night, Listening, Fans

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• And so, in terms of setting the right tone and finding a way of presenting all of these things, that creates a cohesive whole and doesn't alienate the audience, is tough. That's a challenge. And I think the tone of a lot of shows is discovered through experimentation and actually making it. Eventually, it starts to cohere.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Challenges, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I think it's all valid. I don't take it personally at this point, which I probably would have at Sundance. But it's really thrilling.

  James Ponsoldt

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Thinking, Rome, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, Issues, Views

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.

  Ariel Pink

  Real, Night, Appreciate

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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