Vincente Minnelli Quotes

You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I don't want to monitor my audience too closely, as that can really drive you crazy.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

The audience in the country has evolved, and for them, it is about real characters.

The audience, that's who I care about.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.