I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
Audiences are audiences.
There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.