“Artaud sought to remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected, Artaud was committing an act of cruelty upon them.” AudienceDangerDirectDistanceTheatreCrueltyContactRemoveExposedAestheticProtectedSpectatorsArtaud Author:Antonin Artaud
“I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.” ThinkingGivingFilmWatchesAudiencePossibilityConsumersFedsSpectatorsSpoonsParticipating Author:Michael Haneke
“One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.” BeliefPleasureActingHalfAudienceTheatreAriseSpectatorsOne Half Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the episode when it's screened, but we actors only discover the episode when we get the script, two weeks ahead of shooting. Until then, we know nothing of the evolution of our characters.” KnowsLittlesTwoCharacterActorsBitsSituationAudienceWeekEvolutionLittle BitScriptsShootingEpisodesSpectatorsTwo Weeks Author:Richard Sammel
“In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.” GivingCharacterSeemsActionFilmViewsNumbersSituationAudienceDirectorsTheaterPoint Of ViewObjectivesObservationCinemaIntimateAngleViewersSubjectiveSpectatorsParticipantsViewpointsIdentificationMovie Director Author:Ed Murray
“I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film has been extremely well received around the world. It keeps on going around, opening in different markets, and connecting with the audience. In Argentina it was seen by over 450, 000 spectators, which is way more than anything we could have imagined.” ThinkingWorldWayWellsHas BeensDifferentStoriesFilmAudienceDoctorsHistoricalOpeningAround The WorldIntimateConnectingSpectatorsArgentinaHistorical Context Author:Lucia Puenzo
“Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?” ThinkingAudiencePerformancesSpectators Author:Joshua Oppenheimer