audience

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

When art sets racism in the past, no matter how good it is, it allows white people in the audience (and others) to say to themselves "Wow! That racism sure was bad way back then!" It's what happens when people go see 12 Years a Slave. My response is always, "Yeah, you wanna know another time when racism was bad? Earlier today.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.And once you let it out of the house _ once someone else gets to experience it _ everything is changed.You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.That__ the alchemy of art.

LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character__he news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media__on made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that__ not condescending, it__ not smug. It__ funny, it__ emotional, it__ calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.

Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

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.

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.

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.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.