“The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.” FeelsEnergyLevelsAudienceLaughingOne ThingMinutesSeriousConstantCastsTensionIntroductionBack And ForthEnergy Levels Author:Jonathan Sadowski
“I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.” LooksFilmOpportunityChallengesAudienceMinutesMaterialsEnthusiasticPottersNew Challenges Author:David Heyman
“There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.” PeopleShowsFacesFunEnjoyStepsAudienceMinutesStageAnxietyHaving Fun Author:Thalia
“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.” IfsLittlesSeemsHappensAudienceFiveMinutesPatientStudiosFreakConfusingFive Minutes Author:Rob Zombie
“I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.” WantGivingReasonWantedLastsCareersAudienceMinutesUniqueNo ReasonCopies Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.” IfsFallAudienceFiveMinutesSouthParksFive Minutes Author:Stephan Pastis
“The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.” NeedsBelieveLittlesLastsBitsEmotionAudienceMinutesLittle BitAddHardestCraftsHardest ThingAlways BelieveLast MinuteTrue Emotions Author:John Lasseter
“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsStoriesAudienceLaughingMinutesFrontsGive MeDown AndInstinctKicksEditingSay Anything Author:Steve Martin
“Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.” ThinkingFeelsWellsHappensCoursesAudienceMinutesPredictableBumpsHitchcock Author:Barbara Broccoli
“Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.” PeopleLittlesTwoSometimesBigsRememberFilmAudienceWeekMinutesMajorsForgottenBizarreTwo WeeksBlockbuster Author:Rob Zombie
“In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.” IfsKnowsFirstsThreeLostAudienceMinutesHavensTheatre Author:Om Puri
“I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.” IfsGivingFilmImaginationForgetResultsAudienceFiveMinutesPerspectiveInstinctFlatsFive MinutesFascinationNarratorsActivate Author:Werner Herzog
“I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.” NeedsSelfCharacterUseFoundAudienceFivePiecesFourNiceMinutesStageDyingSceneConversationKillingDeeperIntimacyGenreOperaTrue SelfFive MinutesMicrophonesTuberculosisCrossover Author:Barbara Padilla
“I think the power of the short film is incredibly underrated. It is way easier to get someone to watch a 15-minute film then a full-length feature. In those 15 minutes you have the opportunity to express your voice as an artist and hopefully connect with your audience. If you are trying to be a first time feature director then a short film that demonstrates you have a grasp on the themes and concepts of the movie you want to direct is a no-brainer. Whether they are collaborators or potential investors, filmmaking is a visual art form so you obviously need visuals to show them!” IfsThinkingWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsArtShowsFilmFormArtistOpportunityVoiceWatchesAudienceMinutesEasierDirectorsConceptsFirst TimeDirectHopefullyFeaturesThemeVisualsLengthInvestorsFilmmakingVisual ArtCollaboratorsUnderratedShort FilmsNo Brainer Author:Nicholas Ozeki
“The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.” FirstsHappensAudienceFiveMinutesPersonalitySillyGenerousFascinatedAcademicFive MinutesWithholding Author:Laurie Anderson
“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.” PeopleShowsHoursHalfTalkingAudienceMinutesMissing Author:Oprah Winfrey
“You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.” KnowsHoursAudienceToo MuchFourMinutesNervousFifty Author:Agnes Varda
“For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.” HumorFunnyAudienceComedyMinutesListeningConversationJokesTwentiesFollowingCakeStand Up Comedy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.” PeopleTryingWellsReasonEnoughTogetherFilmThreeGivenAudienceMinutesDirectInvestingKitchenConsistentlySaying NoChatting Author:Bruce Beresford
“Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.” IfsKnowsLittlesMadeTwoProblemBigsMistakeWorryAudienceMinutesFrontsPicksSafetyNervesSitcomBig ProblemsSafety Net Author:John Cleese
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.” SometimesAudienceFiveRiskMinutesTheorySecondsFive MinutesGambleGet Ahead Author:Paul Thomas Anderson
“TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.” WellsSaidDifferentHomeAnimalAudienceFiveMinutesTvsDown AndCamerasClubsStudiosRhythmMusclesViewersConnectingFive MinutesDifferent Animals Author:Ted Alexandro
“Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"” MeanDoeWaitingHalfAudienceMinutes Author:Malcolm D. Lee