Unconventional Audience Quotes

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.

There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.

People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate place, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least expect it, and trying to get them to want to listen.

Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.