Audience Consideration Quotes

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.

The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people.

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

Everything I publish is for my readers.

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.

We do appreciate that we have a very conservative audience and we do try to walk the fine line of that and not offend anybody.

I always take the audience into account.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.