Julie Plec Quotes

You build a fan base over time, and they will accept you as long as it's good. Nothing matters as long as something's good. If it's bad, nobody will see it.

I do me, and me is my hits. I'm out there really to satisfy the people.

Talent is being able to please people.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

You want to work on something that people watch and that people like.

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.

Horror film fans are pretty starved for quality. If you do something thoughtful or if you make something good, they're so thankful for it.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.

There's no doubt that 'Lion' is an audience pleaser. I mean, I went to a lot of research screenings all over, in London and America and Australia, and the results were ridiculous, and the crowds were... they just loved the movie, so for me, my job is done.

I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.

Everyone wants to be liked.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

Fame is directly related to the kind of support you have from an audience and the love and support I have from audience is so immense and so huge, that the percentage of negativity is so small compared to that that it would be very easy for it to lose itself.

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.