Josh Lawson Quotes

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

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.

You never know what the public is going to respond to or relate to.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

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

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

The audience, that's who I care about.

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

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.

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

My job is to entertain you, leave feeling better than when you got there, and try to give you more than you thought you were gonna get.

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know - every audience has its own personality.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

There's something about a variety show, I think, that disarms us as consumers of something. We're laughing, and there's this sense of anything goes, anything could happen.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

With any sort of entertainment, you hope people are entertained.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.

If we can continue to tell stories where fans don't know what will happen next, I think that will be a plus in this 'Divas Revolution.'