Robert Fripp Quotes

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

You have to keep surprising your audience.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected and not just do the same thing you've always seen. But of course, you're gonna see some of the same things you've seen before. It's part of the deal.

Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.

I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there's a public to be entertained.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.

As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.

I hope that we're creating something that fans will look forward to for every new performance.

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.

When you're on tour. there's a contract between you and the audience: do what you want, as long as you do what we want. You're having to play with the past at every gig.

We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.