Audiences Quote by Peter Shaffer

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are…

— David Oyelowo

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be…

— Poonam Dhillon

While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the…

— Sidney Lumet

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

— Darren Aronofsky

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or…

— Jeff Daniels

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and…

— Brad Anderson

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with…

— Conrad Hall

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into…

— Gore Vidal

It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important that the…

— Zal Batmanglij

Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry.

— Tony Harrison

As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate…

— Hugh Jackman

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

— Jeffrey Wright