Audience Quotes

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

I have this whole new audience now.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

I go from pub to pub, or jumping on buses or stopping cars. I don't need a TV audience. Every time I go naked, all of a sudden TV cameras pop up around me.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.