Audience Emotions Quotes

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

In a play you can witness your audience live, understand how they feel. It lets you evaluate yourself and measure your growth.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.

It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

The audiences everywhere feel the same emotions. That's why when movies do well in an industry, they become popular all over.

Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.