Hazel Keech Quotes

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

Give the public what it wants.

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

It’s not hard to be popular if you take a poll to find out what it means to be popular.

I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.

You know when a script is good but you don't have any knowledge how visually it is going to look. When this [Happy Valley] came out and I saw the first episode and thought it was terrific.

The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

There is a lot of good television out there, stuff that is better for you than 'Stranger Things,' that, critically, people would be like, 'This is an important show,' but I would press you to find a show that's more watchable. That's hard to do.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

I learned this through Iron Man - it really doesn't matter what I think about who he is because everybody has such a huge idea about what they think the guy is. You can't just rely on your instincts and your imagination, you have to match up with what the expectations are from the people.

I don't know what hype you're talking about, I don't pay attention to it.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

For me, I'm very visually inspired. I'm more inspired by photographs and movies than I am by listening to other music, so for me to create an amazingly intense visual live show is a dream, so I would love to be on that level for sure.

The perception that I was just a pop star was pushed upon me by the public, and it's very hard to change the public's perception even though I never really pushed aside the musician aspect of my career. After I released 'Fingerprints,' my peers reassured me that I was on a level that I always hoped I would be on.

I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.