You have to have an awareness of where you’re going, what the event is, what you’re promoting, and who the audience is. That always informs the way you dress.

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It’s something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you...

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don’t like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

There’s always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band’s sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It’s a band. You like the band, you like the band.

In his heyday, he could take an audience of any size and have them eating out of his hand. He’d just smoke those people, and they’d be waiting in line for him when he got...

I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it’s my job to overcome it.

To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

I try to read the audience, see what they’re in the mood for.

You mustn’t underestimate an audience’s intelligence.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

I don’t think anyone’s made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that ‘Homeland’ does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.