"You can't control the audience. When you're on the air and they're not coming to the party, it's time to shut down the party."
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"I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics."
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"I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience."
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"The audience rejects the movies when it feels a little bit more of the same."
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"[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large."
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"When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it."
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"For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it."
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"Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman's scripts - where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at 'em, and said, "Why won't they be a real actor?" - maybe they just knew their audience. It's too bad."
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"You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it."
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"If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience."
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"Unfortunately part of pulp is that there is sex, there is violence. It's not a kids' show. It's an 18-and-over audience - like anything cable. I see some things in Game of Thrones that turn my hair gray. It's the way the industry has gone."
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"My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now."
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"The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!"
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"Your audience teaches you how to be funny."
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"The audience is making the film and not the film-maker."
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"I don't mind about the boos from the audience."
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"Had I just begged for an audience with Death?"
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"I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical."
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"I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience."
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"Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives."
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