Daniel H. Pink Quotes

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

I think making a documentary gets you out and about more, with people. With stand-up, you're talking at people. With documentaries you're talking with people, and you're listening a lot more.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

In the case of 'Jack Ryan,' it was a huge collaboration, and I enjoyed it very much, and most of all, I want the audience to enjoy it, too. I want them to feel immersed in this world.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.

We cannot really communicate with our fans.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

When you're a co-host, you've got to consider what the other person is saying and take the next step and get the laugh or get to the end of the story. You've got to make it happen and then move on to the next story.