I am my own audience. I always picture me and my mates and think, 'What would we enjoy listening to?'
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
I don't any longer make any quality judgement between theater and cinema. They are different experiences for the audience, and they also are for the actors - although they have a lot in common.
Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.
The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.
You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.
