Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I was given the opportunity to direct 'Senna,' I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives. It had to thrill and emotionally engage people who had never heard of Ayrton Senna.

This system is a monster, ... In this decade, I believe we are going to double our audience.

There has been a huge change in the media scene, with many new services opening up which subscribe to similar values as the BBC. BBC audiences are declining in many markets as they discover these new national and local services.

John Turturro

Whenever and wherever we've shown the film, audiences have responded. So I hope we're going to have a happy ending to the whole situation.

James Macdonald

We're neither happy nor worried about it. The replacement program is doing what it's supposed to and drawing an audience.

We're trying to expand our audiences and have as many people as possible exposed to the orchestra. It's a whole marketing strategy that we hope will better picture us as a 25-year-old organization with a vision for the future.

We think we're bringing back a show that is infinitely superior than the one audiences saw last August.

Gurinder Chadha

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Todd Wagner

Our core business strategy is to create new opportunities for the consumer, ... what we¹re doing has never been done before. As studios and exhibitors search for ways to retain audiences frustrated with the theatre experience, we believe the competitive solution lies in increasing value for customers.

It is an allegory. It is about things that have gone on in the past, things that are happening now and things that I am sure will happen in the future. I hope it works as a piece of entertainment and I hope audiences will talk about some of the ideas it discusses and the questions it asks.

Michael Angarano

I think there's an essential problem in movies and TV that I think a lot of people experience now: Audiences are way more interested in the actors than the characters that they're playing. It's a strange thing.

Daniel Craig

I think there's a complexity to it, but I think audiences are completely up for that.

Gabriel Iglesias

I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences, ... I cross the board.

I said to myself, 'It's OK ... this big court, you need to show some tennis to the audience. Just relax and play your game'.

Ian Mckellen

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' is going for the 'Scream' audience, ... They want teen-agers who are just hungry for another horror movie.

Richard Thompson

I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it?

James Blake

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

George Romero

I think today's audiences, the audiences that make the big money for a studio, are out for whatever the latest event picture is, or the must-see stuff. I think it's a different crowd.

I think Toronto audiences are incredibly sanguine about celebrity, ... The people who come to this festival are really focused on the films.

Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.

We're looking for a big opportunity and a big audience, and this is where you find it.

We never get the opportunity to compete in compulsories with that kind of an audience.

John Hunter

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

Peter Shaffer

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

Peter Jackson

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

We're delighted with the quality of all submissions. We are committed to publishing as many new voices as possible. Our main focus is commercial entertainment. We don't focus on category, or any specialty beyond entertaining audiences with fresh voices.

We are thrilled to be renewing Wildfire . It has done tremendously well for us, drawing in key demos week after week and serving as a great launching pad for Beautiful People . Gen Cortese is fabulous in the lead our audiences just love this show.

Edward Norton

We are thrilled to be collaborating with Edward on this labor-of-love. They're a very daring company and have a great knack for communicating with audiences about challenging films.

Annalee Newitz

Michel Gondry's 'Green Hornet' was another franchise flick that felt like it came out of left field - I thought in a good way, but most audiences disagreed.

We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors.

Zoe Kazan

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

Soledad O'Brien

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.