“You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.” WorldStoriesMovingAudienceMembers Author:Neil LaBute
“We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.” WayWantWritingTryingLooksSaidWholeShowsProblemNightSongWishSoundAudienceToo MuchSeeingInvolvedBandMembersStonesRepeatsRollingEnjoyableOne NightRolling Stones Author:Keith Richards
“Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.” FeelsShouldWholeWould BeCommunityPracticeAudienceDramaMembersSpeculatorsUnderstudies Author:W. H. Auden
“I really like suspense in movies. I don't really like rom-coms. But that being said, as an audience member I really like horror films and actress I really like working with fake blood; I think it's so fun.” ThinkingSaidFilmFunAudienceBloodHorrorMembersActressesSuspenseFakeHorror Film Author:Grace Phipps
“Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn't aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special.” FactsShowsAudienceSpecialTvsRight NowMembersContrastTv Shows Author:Steve Zissis
“I wasn't able to articulate it until after audience members gave feedback. And then, similarly, when we talked about the bromance being unique, I don't think Mark, Jay, and I really saw how special that aspect of that bromance was until our audience members sort of gave us feedback and let us know, "Hey, we've never seen a bromance like this before on television."” ThinkingKnowsAbleAudienceSawsSpecialTelevisionMembersUniqueAspectMarkHeyFeedbackBeing UniqueBromance Author:Steve Zissis
“I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMomentsThreeMistakeAudienceStageTypeBandMembersUniqueAddFewerLockedIdiosyncrasies Author:Chris Cain
“The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.” SaidAudienceGroupsEventsMembersPerformancesRepeatsFarmsChordsAntsAssassinationDallas Author:Laura Mullen
“I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience.” FeelsLooksStillsFilmAudienceDirectorsMembers Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the novel [Anthem], and half have not read it. That is interesting.” ActorsInterestingHalfNovelAudienceDirectorsMembersTheaterJoiningAnthem Author:Jeff Britting
“Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.” ThinkingKnowsWantI CanPlayGivenEnjoyAbilityAudienceSpecialMembersScriptsWant MeI Can ReadFerrets Author:William H. Macy
“It [The Esemblist] is also about the generation of audience members that are watching shows and listening to us at the same time; hopefully, in time, when they listen to our show and then go see a show, they'll realize even more what it takes to make a show, and they'll know even more about everybody on stage, rather than just people above the title of the show.” PeopleKnowsShowsRealizingAudienceGenerationsStageListeningMembersHopefullyTitles Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone
“I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.” AudienceMembersBlockbuster Author:Ewan McGregor
“It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.” WellsDifferentMightFunAudienceMembersWanderVantage PointRamp Author:Pauline Oliveros
“What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.” WantWantedEnjoyAudienceMembersAll Things Author:Bryan Fuller
“My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'” PeopleWantBelieveSaidTwoEnoughStoriesHandsChurchAudienceTroubleMembersResearchCatholicMy FavoriteAbortionConferencesSessionDelightedCatholic ChurchPro LifeInappropriateMicrophonesTorontoUnwantedContraceptionTrue Faith Author:Nat Hentoff
“I'm an audience member too, man. I hate shitty sequels.” MenHateAudienceMembersI HateSequels Author:Chad Stahelski
“When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.” HandsFormAsksAudienceMembersConnectedNeighborDisabilityPublic SpeakingFamily Members Author:Jay Ruderman
“When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.” FirstsWellsPersonsMoralWatchesAudienceTypeCallingMembersScriptsAwfulCodeProgrammingFinding YourselfDoing GoodAmbiguousMoral Code Author:Julie Benz
“It's a moment that I will be asked about for the rest of my life as an actor, and I carry that moment with pride, that Rita [in Dexter] had such an impact and that it was such a gut-wrenching moment for audience members.” MomentsActorsAudiencePrideMembersImpactGutsThat Moment Author:Julie Benz
“As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.” I CanEyeFacesAudienceMembersResponseSubtlePerformersFrustrating Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.” WayStoriesFilmTechnologyAudienceMembersConceptsConcernedRemainsNoiseBellsPopular Film Author:Steven Spielberg
“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.” PeopleWorldTryingEnoughBigsFoundChurchAudienceMembersAssociationAlumni Author:John Shelby Spong
“Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.” WritingDoeI CanSongRoomsAudienceBandMembersCamerasRelySongwritersBand Members Author:Rick Springfield
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.” MayTogetherIndividualWorkDarkAudienceGeniusThousandMembersCriticalImbeciles Author:Billy Wilder
“The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.” MindStoriesDesireAudienceMembersTransformedTrue StoryEditedHopes And Fears Book:Ender's Game Source: Ender's Game