Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niels Arden Oplev

'Deity' will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta's many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture.

I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theatre than when it came in.

Luise Rainer

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

Michael Buble

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.

Michael Buble

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Kat Edmonson

I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

Jane McGonigal

The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.

Jay Leno

We had an idea today, we're going to invite every single person running for governor to be in our audience on September 22nd, ... So on September 22nd, if you're running, if you're a legitimate candidate, all 200, we have 300 seats, we'll let everybody in. And Gary Coleman, don't worry we will have a booster seat.

Tribeca Film Festival Doha will be both an industry festival and an audience festival, not just an event for insiders. Community outreach will be a major part of what we're doing. We'll put filmmakers in touch with local, regional, and international audiences.

Nina Tassler

You know, we tried something. I don't think we were particularly successful with it, but sometimes you get criticized for not experimenting with a form. ... The nice thing is, when we come back to the next cycle, it's exciting. We're going back to our original form - five continents, great competitions - so we know our audience loves that.

Michael Haneke

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

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

Unless you are a subscriber, the rest of Austin sees us as whatever is on stage that night, ... However, even when these pop shows aren't in and of themselves profitable from a ticket-sales standpoint, they break even from a patron relationship standpoint. We want to get patrons from ticket buyer to season ticket holder to donor. We know there's a future there in that audience. Ten years from now, when we're bringing Bright Eyes back for a reunion tour, that audience that has grown up with us.

Dana Gioia

Over the past half century, as American poetry's specialist audience has steadily expanded, its general readership has declined. Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.

David Newman

Our goal is to diversify the audience coming to the U.S. Open and make it as fun and entertaining as possible,

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.

Ashton Kutcher

Our core audience is into the Web, so we felt it was natural for us to reach youth culture online.

Sepp Blatter

Over a billion people will see this on television. Fantastic for Trinidad and the World Cup. The audience will go wild.

James Baker

Our autumn programming promises to be our strongest line-up to date. We're confident that Sky One continues to bring the best from the US with 'Weeds' set to mirror its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, 'Threshold' exhibiting the potential for an 'X-Files' style cross-over success and returning series 'Nip/Tuck' and 'The 4400' continuing to captivate audiences.

Our audiences will feel like they are experiencing Sinatra's life first hand,

Our audiences want to connect with our content on every platform they interact with-linear television, broadband, online, radio, and now on PCs that run Windows XP Media Center. Today's announcement helps fulfill our multiplatform entertainment promise, ... The distinction between TV and broadband programming is becoming less important to our viewers, and the Media Center Edition platform is helping to take the entire entertainment experience to the next level.

our audiences are home in a way they're not during the school year.

Frankie Avalon

Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.

Our audience loves Fairbanks. It always draws a big crowd.

Greg Rucka

Our audience is much smarter, much more sophisticated, and not necessarily because it's older,

Our audience is looking for an alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show and we felt that the new MTV2 fit the bill perfectly,

Our audience is full of multitaskers. They're IM-ing and talking on the phone and doing their homework and watching TV all at the same time.

John Gallagher

Our audience has spoken and we have responded.

Our audience expects CNN to rise to an occasion like this and we will not disappoint,

Ian Mckellen

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

My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

Jason Mraz

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online. I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.