Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
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.
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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 have to satisfy my audience.