Audience Quotes - Page 29

• I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

  Alice Lowe

  Thinking, Laughing, Stuff

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience of American literature. Second, it's really got to be invested in a number of what-if questions.

  Kiese Laymon

  Numbers, What If, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

  Dave Abrams

  Choices, Language, Daily Life

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's one thing if you are turning out dozens or even a hundred stories a year, you've got to have a great supporting cast behind you. Superman had a family that developed, and it's only natural that Batman has a family of sorts that developed. I think it's a great way to keep the comics interesting and varied, to appeal to different segments of an audience, to bring new perspectives to it.

  Michael Uslan

  Thinking, Years, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

  David Bowie

  Integrity, Real, Artist

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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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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• Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Simone Swink, www.januarymagazine.com. June, 2005.

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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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• I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Nice, People, Giving

  "mr. hollywood". Interview with Lindzi Scharf, www.seventeen.com. October 22, 2005.

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• Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Hero, Heart, Emotional

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

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• I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

  Rachel Zucker

  Halloween, Dressing Up, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Thinking, Tunes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction out of a reader, or an audience, that is something closer to relief: i.e., thank god this isn't poetry, but stand-up comedy. Some poets are really funny, but more often poets are fourth rate stand up comics at best. But they benefit from the sheer relief of the audience.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Thinking, Thank God, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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