Audience Quotes

It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’

And when it’s sold to 50 countries or whatever, for me it’s a great deal. I make movies for an audience so if that audience grows, I feel really honoured and thankful for it.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.