Sarah Lancashire Quotes

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.

The audience wants something that entertains them, and whether that entertainment is in the form of a physical match or in the form of a skit or video or promo, it's our job to deliver it to them, to the point where the audience becomes the biggest champion of our brand. And if we can't match that, then we're falling short.

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.

The cool thing about 'Transparent' is that the show is funny but not like a sitcom is funny. It all comes down to the writing... The writers on that show are so good that you don't have to worry about anything. There are so many things that can go wrong making a TV show or a movie, but if the writing's good, that's, like, 95 percent of it.

It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler in the world and can do every move perfectly; if you don't connect with the crowd or sell well or have good promos, nobody cares.

I don't think hype always works. It can get you initial audience, but eventually, it's your story, and the characters need to hold audience's attention.

I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.

The super success of '3 Idiots' has taught us that cost of making a film is not important at all; it's all about things going well at the script level.

The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.

Writing for TV or films isn't great art. You have to have a common denominator. It's up to the composer to make that common denominator memorable.

I believe in one thing, and that is content, because if your content is strong, the film will surely be hit at the box office.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.