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.
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
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.
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
