I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

Everything popular is wrong.

As for our majority… one is enough.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‚Indiana Jones.‘ Nobody in their right mind thought ‚American Graffiti‘ or ‚Star Wars‘ would work.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Comedy’s about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you’re saying.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Value is what you get.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

For greed all nature is too little.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.