Tom Kitt Quotes

As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.

It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that's kind of rare when the artist feels like their audience understand them. But I feel like people are understanding exactly what I'm going for. And that's awesome.

I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally.

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

When the audience appreciates your film, that's the happiest feeling for an actor because at the end of the day, you are making a film for them. When they like it and appreciate it, you feel your work is done.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.