Audience Quote by Michael Patrick Walker

Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.

— Sydney Pollack

A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in.

— John Tiffany

If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands.…

— Tim Rice

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

— Sofia Coppola

In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft…

— John Tiffany

I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately…

— Andrea Arnold

The audience is already doing so much, so I don't make them work any harder.

— Boyd Holbrook

I don't want to be able to see the audience

— Bobby Darin

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

— Warren Littlefield

I feel that if my work excites me and makes me deliver my best, then it should, hopefully, entertain viewers as well.

— Suraj Venjaramood

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

— Natasha Hamilton