14 Quotes Tagged: audience

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To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Alfred Hitchcock, British filmmaker (1899–1980)

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It is a mistake to use highfalutin language when you advertise to uneducated people. I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 33% of housewives had no idea of what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. I should be at the end of the room facing the audience. . . . You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do.

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can’t like it.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

John Steinbeck, American writer (1902–1968)

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Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

Michel de Montaigne, French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

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Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.

Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.

Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (1887–1968)

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No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.

Rod Serling, American screenwriter (1924–1975)

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Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

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