I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.
Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.
What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
