I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'
I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.
I think some of the best movie stars in the world are guys who stay in their lane. You can lose an audience if you start saying, "Now I really want to do something that is just for me, but on a massive scale." That's a dangerous mix.
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that's very worrying, because the future doesn't look bright.
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.
Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
Every time you talk about politics or religion, know that the moment you open your mouth you're isolating 50% of your audience, in any medium. You're taking 50% of people that'll buy tickets to come see you and you're removing them from the equation.
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.
I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
There is a point you can definitely lose the audience and sometimes you don't know where it is.
National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
