Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

The minute you forget who your fan-base is, that's the minute everything falls out from under you.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Never stop listening to your audience.

If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.

So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.