If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The audience wants control. They want freedom.
There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.