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Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices so...

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The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch...

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I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history—or sometimes the lack of it. You're play...

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I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I...

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You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have a...

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Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet i...

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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a re...

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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private mom...

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I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, ...

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The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some G...

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I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be...

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I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about bein...

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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who...

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To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Taste...

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Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is...

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Walter BenjaminThe Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.