General Audience Quotes

If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that is not always widely accepted by the general audience, which is just a reality; a movie of a certain size, they don't want people to be too - it's a balance of how deep to keep going with these ideas.

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.

You have to realize that people who bother to log on to anything and talk about a television show is a very specific fraction of the audience. It's not the general audience, so you can't get too crazy listening to just that. That's not representative, but they are the most dedicated.