Nicholas Lea Quotes

I believe that films are meant for entertainment, but in that process, you have the possibility to think about what kind of entertainment you're giving to audiences.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.

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

TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining.

I try my hardest with my live show and YouTube to make it appealing to all ages.

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

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

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

It's a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it's too interesting... people don't really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it.

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.