New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.
The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
The world at large doesn't lead to hell nor does the monastery lead to heaven.
A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.
In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were h...
We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.
American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.
To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
You can't tell the audience — well, you can, but I don't like to tell the audience — that anything they're watching doesn't matter.
