Audience Intelligence Quotes

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

I loved 'The Simpsons' because it didn't talk down to its audience.

I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

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've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

I like to really respect the audience and let them come through on answers.

The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

Audiences are savvy. You can never go wrong assuming the best of them.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.