Understanding Audience Quotes

For us, creativity means thinking about the lives of our audience and how to connect with them.

We knew what mums, dads, and children would understand and enjoy without resentment. I don't see the requirement to upset people. You're there to entertain and please.

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

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

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

I wanted to create a film that hadn't been created yet. I studied film for many years. The Room is almost 20 years of my work. You see, I understand young people unlike the media. I don't expect people to love The Room 100% but I respect that people enjoy it and that maybe it opens certain doors for them. That's what makes me happy.

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.

Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

The only way to resonate at a level that persuades is to know who you are addressing. If it's true that the Audience is the hero, you need to spend time thinking about them. Really getting to know them to the point it feels like they are a friend. May times we picture our audience as a large clump of strangers. Instead, you need to picture them as individuals standing in line to have a personal conversation with you. It's easy to persuade a friend, you need to think about your audience until you know them as a friend.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.