Todd Haynes Quotes

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very diverse group of people. There are a lot of different people in the audience, and you can kind of get a barometer for how your material plays throughout the country.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

I'm a commercial director; I do some very very commercial stuff in the commercial world. My music videos are always analyzed. I need to think about what the audience is going to think.

Culture has no logic.

Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.

We are a layered society, so what may be taken easily by an urban audience may not go down well with those watching the same film in suburban areas.

That's a goal of mine and the sport. To become more diverse and change the demographic, bring in a new face.

I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

Mexico is a very complex, mysterious country. I will never understand it fully, and that's why I write so much about it, in order to try to understand it.

I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.

I'm not sure that my films show the reality of life in Iran; we show different aspects of life. Iran is a very extensive and expansive place, and sometimes, even for us who live there, some of the realities are very hard to comprehend.

If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I call these kids the "Keanu Reeves Generation," after the actor who has a Hawaiian father and a Welsh mother.

Different cultures have different audiences.

The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

Europe has never been a monolithic space, it contains a lot of people, a lot of languages and infinite supplies of history. I didn't need to do anything to showcase diversity. It is a condition of life and art in Europe, contained in every random sample.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.