Eamonn Walker Quotes

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

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.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

It's all about the audience and the people who support your work and respond to it. So, anytime I hear that 'Next to Normal' is affecting people, it goes beyond my wildest dreams of what I set out to do when I started to write 'Next to Normal.'

Hollywood has cracked emotions very well with animation, and that is where India will eventually cover because it is an emotional country, and we just want a right story to tell, which will stir the right emotions with the audience.

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.

The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

The way you survive in the performing arts is by having a sense of your audience, and doing things which entertain and satisfy the audience, but in a more important way, cause the audience to question many things.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.