Vignesh Shivan Quotes

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

It is easier to motivate people to do something difficult than something easy.

I can't titillate the audience just for the sake of doing it.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

The whole point is to hook people and keep them interested.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

I believe that I have an audience and the challenge is to meet their expectations.

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and also present it in such a way that it is liked by all the audience.

The last thing you want is for people not to care about what you have to say.

The world is changing. Social media is a way to sell movies and to build a fan base. The truth is that you have followers because they know you are into it and you're funny and you like it. I think it's great.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Giving it to the audience is probably the easiest thing. Finding out what they truly want is probably the most difficult.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.