“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
“When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.” PeopleWantTwoAudienceTension Author:Signe Baumane
“If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.” IfsWantRoomsAudienceQuietTensionAbortionShut UpSpectacular Author:Lewis Black
“Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentActionAudienceHorrorDifferent WaysTensionFreak Author:Robert Rodriguez
“The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.” ThinkingWellsImportantAudienceFocusTensionSatisfyingWorthwhileVersus Author:Andy Richter