Audience Focus Quotes

I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.

I've learned that you never have to think about how to make money. You need only to focus on what you think is going to be a good movie or what's a movie I'd like to watch as the audience.

In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.

Doesn't make a difference who you're auditioning for; whatever it is, you have an audience, and you have a role, and you have the opportunity to perform that role the best you can for this audience. If you look at it like that, it doesn't make a difference if you get the part or not.

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

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

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

I always take the audience into account.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

I don't care about anybody's perception of me except for the audience.

I'm always thinking about the viewers.

Ultimately, my boss is the audience.

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.