#audience

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#bad #getting #good #guess #mass

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#between #depict #family #i #i think

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#bruce #improve #lenny #lenny bruce #make

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#concert #done #experience #job #our

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#american #audience #help #really #theater

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. ↗

— Alben W. Barkley

#best #drunk #intelligent #little #well-educated

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#audience #concerned #how #look #much

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#be real #every #i #i think #pact

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#loneliness #reader #readership #imagination