Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.
My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.
Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
