Dead Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos

The scariest thing about screening a comedy if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if…

— Tim Heidecker

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough,…

— Peter Stone

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make…

— Harmony Korine

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

— Brian Helgeland

Each audience is different.

— Prince

One of our big tools is screening. We screen usually 12 times, which is much more than most filmmakers do, and we recut in…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

— Molly Shannon

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

— Sarah Silverman

The smaller an audience is, the more self-conscious they are. People are always looking at each other to see who is laughing. Because the…

— Baron Vaughn

The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant…

— Jonathan Sadowski

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're…

— Adam Conover