James Acaster Quotes

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and also present it in such a way that it is liked by all the audience.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

Yes, I'm always - I'm always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one that has screwed that up. Once in while I indulge myself and try something else, and I keep my fingers crossed that it will come out good and there'll be enough people who will enjoy it, but that doesn't often happen.

When I went to WWE, the level of work I put out every night was just balls to the wall.

If you are working in a publicly subsidized building, then you have a responsibility to deliver truly interesting, risky, innovative, even provocative work. Work that speaks to your audience in many resonant ways. The priority is less about the financial rewards.

I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.

I feel an acting stint would help me widen my reach as a singer. Being an actor would let me reach out to people who may not have heard my kind of songs.

I do a film because I would love to be a part of it, but I also think from the audience's perspective. Our profession survives because of our audience.

I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.

First of all, I'm a performer, so people really want to see my performance in different styles and genres. We tried to do hip-hop and EDM, and very energetic performances through 'Camo,' 'Nega Dola,' and 'One Shot, Two Shot.'

I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don't feel cheated.

Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

The danger with success in television is "Haven't we shot this episode before? Didn't we shoot this scene two years ago?" I think it's really hard to just take the risk from season to season and not be afraid to give the audience something completely different, and trust that they'll come with you.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

You gotta let the fans shine their glory the way they want. It's like I have a million bosses and my job is to make them happy.