Cristela Alonzo Quotes

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

Most of my movies have been concept based and aimed at a certain audience, but I always wanted to do a film that catered to all.

If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.

I'm not afraid to have my music digestible by different ages.

I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone.

I don't want just 25-year-old girls watching my show. I want Grandma, Grandpa and Mom and Dad and the kids. I just want everyone to hear good music.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

When you set out to really entertain adults as well as kids, your audience is basically anybody who is breathing.

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love.

The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.

The broadcast networks - they are literally broad. They try to appeal to everyone. They try to reach all of America, all the time. Increasingly, they fail to do that, but they try.

Our strategy is gaming for the masses.

I don't make music for Christians. I make music for everyone. I make music for the masses.

What's very important for me is that I want family audiences - all kinds of audiences - to watch my films, and the more people who watch the movies, the better. So I want to be part of popular cinema.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.

Nobody makes art for an elite, not if they're a real artist. You try and reach as many people as possible with whatever it is that you make. If a chef is making an omelette, he wants everyone to think that it tastes great because he did it. And if it does, then that's a success because everyone eats it.

The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together. Our television has become so targeted, it's so specific that there's literally nothing else on television that grandparents are watching with their grandkids, and they're both entertained.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.