The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn’t really matter to me if they are Left or Right.
Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.
I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.
I don’t quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
I don’t care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it’s zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
The press seemed to take some delight that I previously had a ‘straight audience,’ and set about trying to destroy that. And I think some men were frustrated that their girlfriends wouldn’t let go of the idea that George Michael just hadn’t found the ‘right girl.’
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
I think it’s necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that’s highly engaged, and I think that means gamers. They’re the ones who have the high-end hardware and the expertise and the patience to sort through the uncertainty of it all.
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn’t be the audience, they would be the artist.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony.
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that ‘The Sound of Music’ reached.
I think the key as a creator is to just trust your own intuition, and follow your passion and trust that if you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
For me, a show’s a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.
That’s probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It’s all about the fellowship.
I looked out into the audience, saw dozens of faces I knew well – LGBTQ folks, mostly – all avid comics readers and superhero fans and DC supporters, and it just hit me: Why was this so impossible? Why in the world can we not do a better job of representation of not just humanity, but also our own loyal audience?
An audience shouldn’t listen with complacency.
Personally, as a filmmaker, I think you should prepare your audience as to what they can expect.
You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they’ll accept from you.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn’t quite been in before.
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it’s you, and I think that’s what the audience is really interested in… you, how you’re going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it’s been identified, I’m looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there’s a complacency that comes with watching those films.
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
‘Billy Elliot’ prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.
I’m noticing a lot of the big bloggers who’ve posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers’ sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it’s a question of being appropriate for the audience.
The truth is, when you want a great show, it’s not ‘entertaining’ the audience – it’s you sharing with them… an experience of communion.
If you’re sitting in the audience, you probably can’t see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.
It’s interesting to watch myself with an audience; I’m trying hard to learn from it.
‘Let the Bullets Fly’ indeed attracted an audience, but how it did this is also a question for me.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
I feel like there’s a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, ‘Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?’ And they tell me!
You can’t control how an audience responds to something. It’s up to them.
‘Downward Spiral’ felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I’d explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.
For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that’s entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.
If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that’s potent storytelling.
Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you’re in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
It’s about polarization. You’re trying to stir up something in your audience.
I can never wink at the audience.
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There’s nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up – because that’s all you.
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.
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?
There’s nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It’s the best feeling in the world.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
