Florence King Quotes

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get furious for the audience. I want to say to them, 'This play is not supposed to be like this. They've got it completely wrong. You should be electrified by this.'

If anyone thinks my show was 'pretty good,' then I've completely failed.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value?

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

I got to feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 percent and that it's game-changing.

If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.

We really just try not to think about the scrutiny and the pressure. We're just trying to make the show that we like, and we're working really hard at it.

People pay a lot of money to go see shows now, they don't wanna know about your technical problems, or if you're not feeling good, they don't wanna know we have a glitch. It's their night, you better do something to earn that money.

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

America is one long expectoration.