Anna Wintour Quotes

When someone says "that resonates with me" what they are saying is "I agree with you" or "I align with you." Once your ideas resonate with an audience, they will change. But, the only way to have true resonance is to understand the ones with whom you are trying to resonate. You need to spend time thinking about your audience. What unites them, what incites them? Think about your audience and what's on their mind before you begin building your presentation. It will help you identify beliefs and behavior in your audience that you can connect with. Resonate with.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

There's nothing you can't tell to an audience, because they're all people who've had lives. The only thing they don't want to watch is someone who's really angry or out of control.'

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

My concern has always been to write songs that my audience, my fans are able to identify with.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.