Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Don Roff

Mots clés humor writing torture audience

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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mots clés suffer audience

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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

Thomas de Quincey

Mots clés writing journalism nonfiction audience propriety

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To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Chip Heath

Mots clés communication audience get-them-to-think

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Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Chuck Palahniuk

Mots clés honesty audience tv audiences snuff

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A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.

Richard Stanley

Mots clés audience traitor director

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

Craig Ferguson

Mots clés art comedy audience

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One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

Peter Watson

Mots clés innovation audience modernism

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I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Frank Capra

Mots clés crying drama audience

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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

John Steinbeck

Mots clés writing audience

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