Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. P. Thompson

We should do what's right for a strong, independent BBC and its audiences in the long term, not what's politically convenient now,

Ross Levinsohn

We think that the property is perfectly suited for that audience.

We are very proud of the effort put forth into 'A Current Affair,' which displayed some exceptional work but has not resonated with audiences in the larger markets as well as we would have liked.

Don Morrow

We wanted an undergraduate course text based on current research; one that suited the way in which we teach our second-year designated essay course in Canadian sport history; and one that would be very readable to a general audience. We wanted to go beyond the chronicling of sports' events for the die-hard sport fan; instead, we wanted to show how sport was woven into the fabric of Canadian culture and shaped by social forces such as gender, class, and race.

We want to create a theater that people take home and think about and mull over - and perhaps make sense of two weeks later. We like theater that gives audiences a lot to think about.

Ashley Monroe

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

With her experienced background and on-air presence, audiences next season will see Lynn take the show and its brand to a new level that invigorates the court show genre.

WRHI has never underestimated its audience. That's why they're still around.

Women are coming out to the theaters, but they're coming out to movies with each other and not their boyfriends and husbands. I think we've lost a lot of our male audiences this year. The video game industry may be having more of an effect than we originally thought it might.

Aaron McGruder

To me, being in the top 10 for African-American audiences is not justification to keep a show on the air. I would not be shedding any tears for the loss of those shows.

Greg Garcia

Upscale audiences don't necessarily need to sit and watch themselves on TV,

there is nothing like a live audience--the combined feeling of elation and being physically spent--that comes from working hard in the theatre.

This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.

John Clarke

We go to second, third, fourth, and fifth grades with the different ensembles, ... Last year, we did 90 ensemble programs and seven concerts, reaching 16,000 kids in the classes and performances. We bring them to Richardson Auditorium or the State Theater for our concert in May. There is nothing like a live performance. Hearing a live performance of classical music by professional musicians in a very exciting manner is a wonderful experience. These kids are the audiences of the future.

Every year they come back with less of an audience, ... so the more they can do to sustain themselves (in summer), the better.

Every year, the networks lose a little more audience, and cable gains in the summertime.

Eli Roth

There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.

There's going to be a small number of people who can do it professionally. These are people who have something unique to say and a big audience. There are definitely going to be superstars. But there are no get-rich schemes.

Scott Sanders

What we are finding is that the people who are coming to New York keep telling us how much they wish their friends and families back home could experience what the audiences are experiencing ... on Broadway.

(We've) really tried to develop programs that meet the teen audience. There's a lot out there for youngsters, but once they're 14, 15, 16, you have to be creative.

Jason MacDonald

We've promoted the film heavily and our audiences are expecting it to be on. We will broadcast it.

We will still sell Vineyard Vines collections at our other stores. However, this store . . . will provide a new outlet for our clientele, particularly the younger audience.

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

What I realized with 'Unbreakable' is that it doesn't matter if you have technical prowess if you don't connect with the people in the theater. So I decided to just let myself be myself on this one and show the two things about me that I don't think I've let audiences see -- joy and emotion.

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.

Cate Blanchett

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Anne Archer

So from that standpoint, it didn't seem weird to me at all. I think it's interesting and obviously audiences do, too ... I think there is a sort of emptiness in our look at life in general lately, and think this is a way to explore that.

Hugh Laurie

Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.

Sarah Brown

One thing I think is really important is chemistry, and if actors have chemistry, audiences will pick up on that. Audiences will root for characters that don't even exist as a couple because the actors' chemistry is so strong.

Eric Feldman

New technology always provides new opportunities for us to connect with our audiences.

Bob Wright

NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment, ... The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.