I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.
We earned the 'Line of Duty' audience's loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that.
I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.
I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.
The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.
You couldn't be performing if it weren't for the audience. I appreciate them being there. So why not applaud them? They took time out of their schedule to show up and sit in the concert hall and be part of the experience.
You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.
I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
The support of our fans is vital to everything that we do - we always play for our country and our fans.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
I feel joy when I do a great show.
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.
Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
Without the fans, there is no Samoan Dynasty, there is no Triple H, there is none of us. So the fans are entitled to their opinion.
