“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.” DifferentPlayCharacterLightNightActorsSimpleAudienceTheaterEvery Night Author:Diego Luna
“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindFirstsIdeasLightRomancePassionCoursesLiteratureInterestAudiencePiecesMagicMysteryHorrorShadowDialogueCaptureSeducingLight And Shadow Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.” HandsLightHouseAudiencePoliticianRaisesChinaChineseGuestsInvitedBangsAmazementReceptionMany Hands Author:David Lange
“... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.” PeopleWayDoeRealLightAudienceGrowing UpGrowingSpeechResponsibleIllFocusedOilScreensNoiseDrunkFlamesCandlePaleDesksDiscourseLampsBulbsManicIncessantFlickerWaveringShimmerReal Knowledge Author:Adrienne Rich
“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.” RealLightJoySongPleasureAudienceSourceCommitmentPullingStrands Author:Michael Gira
“I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.” WayLightDarkRoomsAudienceTelevisionUncomfortableDark Room Author:Ron White
“I went to see Shine a Light, and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. Its primarily Mick Jagger, but theyre all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. Its just deeply, deeply attractive.” MenDoeDoneLightPerfectWatchesAudienceFrontsShiningAttractiveRelaxedJaggerPerfect Things Author:Ben Daniels
“My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.” PeopleLongHas BeensTwoLightEyeKidsResponsibilityAudienceLong TimeMiracleEverydayPrioritiesSunshineEveryday LifeAmazing Family Author:Thalia
“As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.” LightActorsRoomsAudienceOpennessAtoms Author:Tim Crouch
“For me, as a film goer, I like nothing more than to sit in the cinema, have the lights go down and not know what I'm about to see or unfold on-screen. Every time we go to make a film, we do everything we can to try to systematise things so we're able to make the film in private, so that when it's finished it's up to the audience to make of it what they will.” KnowsTryingLightAbleFilmAudienceDown AndFinishedScreensCinema Author:Christopher Nolan
“I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.” LightAudience Author:Barry Hannah
“I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.” IfsWayFeelsWellsMayLongMadeLightAudienceProductionsRhythmRelatedLighting Author:Jennifer Tipton
“There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.” WellsReasonLightMightFilmTurnsAudienceRadioDialogueTitlesVisualsStimulation Author:Robert Altman
“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
“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindI CanHardLightLastsSongAsksProcessCreativityAudienceFireHard WorkExpectationsPercentWriting ProcessVacuums Author:Andrew Bird
“What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door. We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship. Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?” PeopleWorldBelieveWellsLongMomentsRealityLightFormSecretWonderDarknessAudienceDoorsObjectsMastersSummerTheaterMethodWinterDisappearInvisibleUnconsciousAtomsLong AgoTrapsPullingClosetsMagicianRabbitsTransformingDazzlingApprenticeship Author:Jane Roberts