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I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.

All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.