#audience

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out. ↗

— David Antin

#common #damn #dog #doing #even

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. ↗

— David Antin

#based #comes #current #current form #entertainment

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#communicate #done #gets #i #know

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#audience #comedies #helpful #i #incredibly

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology. ↗

— Avi Arad

#bounds #cgi #gone #kinds #last

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#does #flaw #line #look #louse

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#audience member #bringing #create #interested #into

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#audience #before #fault #fresh #i