Dwayne Johnson Quotes

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

You can never predict what an audience is going to respond to and what they're going to watch.

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

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.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

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

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

The audience is never wrong.

As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need to find a different way to make a living. Collectively the audience is smarter than you will ever, ever be.

The audience, that's who I care about.

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.