Audience Relevance Quotes

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience.

No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

TV is still a 'push' medium - we are broadcasting into any home or business with basic cable, and depending on what's happening in the world, we have a wider audience, from news junkies to very sporadic viewers. On TV, you want your reporting to be valuable to that entire audience and be relevant.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Effective communication is fascinating to me yet bad communication is just as fascinating. There are lessons to be learned from both. I can't say I am a natural communicator, it's taken a lot of work to be able to develop content relevant to the audience and deliver it with credibility. My initial natural ability tended to be more around the visual display of information. For years I was more comfortable visualizing other people's great thinking. I preferred to be hidden behind the curtain than a thinker myself.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.

You could argue we are a different audience today, but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

I can't imagine catering to an audience that doesn't also interest me.