I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
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.
