Audience Quote by Bill Pullman

I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it…

— Kathryn Erbe

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

— Joseph Fiennes

The experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of…

— Wes Craven

I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be…

— Tracy Letts

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the…

— David Schwimmer

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides…

— Sharon Salzberg

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just…

— Eli Roth

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they…

— Stephen King

I really feel like the horror genre is capable of so much. Especially as an in-theater experience, something you watch with other people. It…

— Ari Aster

I think the real joy of seeing a film in theatres is the privacy of the darkness - you're all facing the same way…

— Eva Victor