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I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.
Author:
David Zucker
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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.
Author:
James Young
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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Zhang Yimou
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To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
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Roy Wood
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I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
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Dick Wolf
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Walt Whitman
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
Author:
Timothy West
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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.
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Doc Watson
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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Andrzej Wajda
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With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
Author:
Johnny Vegas
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The States still has the best audiences by far.
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Robin Trower
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All audiences should be slightly off balance.
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Richard Thompson
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Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
Author:
Tabitha Soren
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I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.
Author:
Archie Shepp
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I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.
Author:
Artur Schnabel
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I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.
Author:
Mark Russell
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The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.
Author:
Michael Ritchie
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We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
Author:
Harold Ramis
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At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
Author:
Sean Penn
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Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
Author:
Andy Partridge
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Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Author:
Maureen O'Hara
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I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.
Author:
Graeme Murphy
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
Author:
Van Morrison
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Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.
Author:
Jacqueline McKenzie
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It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
Author:
Todd McFarlane
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The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
Author:
Rue McClanahan
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Audiences deserve better.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Author:
Ted Kotcheff
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Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.
Author:
Dorothy Kilgallen
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Author:
Janis Joplin
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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Author:
Roland Joffe
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Author:
Roland Joffe
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The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
Author:
Paul Hirsch
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Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Author:
Werner Herzog
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
Author:
Anna Held
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So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.
Author:
Lee Hazlewood
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What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.
Author:
Stephen Greenblatt
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If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
Author:
Norman Granz
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Author:
Charlotte Gilman
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I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.
Author:
Steve Forbert
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I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
Author:
Andrew Eldritch
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We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.
Author:
Sanjay Dutt
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We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.
Author:
Santiago Durango
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But you can't really know your audiences so well.
Author:
Peter Davies
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You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
Author:
Celia Cruz
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We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.
Author:
Jon Crosby
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But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.
Author:
Claudette Colbert
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When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
Author:
Glenn Close
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For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
Author:
David Cassidy
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Author:
Cab Calloway
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Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
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We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Author:
Jerry Bruckheimer
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
Author:
Charles Bronson
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Audiences are audiences.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
Author:
Randy Bachman
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
Author:
Dario Argento
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I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.
Author:
David Antin
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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Author:
Edward Albee
