If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?'
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
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.
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
