I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.
We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.
I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
