Audience Quote by Edward Norton

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much…

— Thomas Sadoski

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel…

— W. H. Auden

Audiences need to engage with characters.

— Nina Tassler

The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.

— Mick Garris

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have…

— Grant Heslov

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

— Olivia Williams

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

— Peter Brook

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to…

— Matt Bomer

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through…

— Rockne S. O'Bannon

I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters…

— Jed Mercurio

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

— Andrew Scott