Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.
The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.
I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.