Rajiv Menon Quotes

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

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

The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

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

I never want to bore the public.

I always tell people this - when you start wrestling, don't forget that part you liked as a child. If you can keep a bit of that in your act, you can keep a bigger audience.

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

It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.

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

Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.

I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

When people are telling stories on screen, you can show the reactions of people, play it off those reactions, and it can be fun. But when it's someone just giving an opinion on things, even if the opinion is kind of interesting, that is potentially deadly. It has to be really quick.

People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.

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

The audience wants something that entertains them, and whether that entertainment is in the form of a physical match or in the form of a skit or video or promo, it's our job to deliver it to them, to the point where the audience becomes the biggest champion of our brand. And if we can't match that, then we're falling short.

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.