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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.
I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.
To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
If I have a huge audience, I'd like a bigger audience; maybe slightly a slightly more illustrious audience.
Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host.
It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.
Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I was trained to be more technical in Europe because that's the audience. They enjoy a more technical style.
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.
When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
You sense when something is special, but you don't know how special it is until it's in front of an audience.
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.
What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.
And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.
I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.