“I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.” WayArtMadeShowsBigsAudienceHeardFindingsHappeningsBiggerStatementsStoppingFillingGallery Author:Jerry Saltz
“Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.” IfsWorldWantActingAudienceListeningHappeningsEngagedProcessing Author:Richard Gere
“To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesMomentsNextTermChanceAudienceOne ThingWeekHappeningsPerformancesCamerasFulfillingTake A ChanceCapturedNext Week Author:Lily Tomlin
“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsActingAudienceImagineHappeningsFunctionReal Things Author:George Bernard Shaw
“A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.” PeopleIfsLooksMeanPersonsRealDreamRunningNextDarkLevelsAudienceHappeningsAdvantageTerrorScaryAtmosphereVisualsNightmareFinding YourselfPanicGood Movie Author:Stephen King
“Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play because stuff will happen, right then and there. The audience wants to believe that what's going on is happening for the first time, ever. That's what acting is. That's what good scene writing is.” WantWritingFirstsBelievePlayHappensActorsStuffActingAudienceDoorsSceneDirectorsHappeningsFirst TimePlaygroundsGood Directors Author:Martin Landau
“In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.” IfsWayTryingPlayCan DoCasesAudienceHappeningsShoesScenarios Author:Jay Baruchel
“When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.” WayWellsChallengesAudienceSceneHappeningsDialogueRhythmOperationsPerformingRight TimeFitting Author:Clive Owen
“The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.” LightAudienceDoorsHappeningsPerformancesDown AndThings I LoveTurned DownLive Performance Author:Cate Blanchett